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Tom Anderson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 8, 1970

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

Tom Anderson

I had looked at dating sites and niche communities like BlackPlanet, AsianAvenue, and MiGente, as well as Friendster, and I thought, 'They're thinking way too small.'

Tom Anderson

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.

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I tend to 'splurge' for convenience. I'll pay a lot to not waste time.

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The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

Tom Anderson

Facebook really has made the world a better place.

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The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

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When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.

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MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.

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If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.

Tom Anderson

In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something like that. And we do those things, too, but we do so much more. We try to focus on the whole world and all the things that people are interested in, rather than just people to people, or one to one communication.

Tom Anderson

We asked people why they didn't go to MySpace. A lot of people thought it was too hard to use, they thought it was a music site, or a content site. Privacy was a concern, or they'd say it was a site for teenagers.

Tom Anderson

The very first plan I wrote for MySpace was that it would be a portal, but a portal wrapped around your user profile.

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I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.

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Google is basically too big for anyone to go against in a serious way.

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Instagram has really changed the travel industry.

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Time is the most important thing to me - how can you do all the things you want to do with such limited time... I'm hoping science of life extension makes progress.

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I think people are feeling more artistic and creative with something like Instagram that makes editing easy. That's a good thing for sure.

Tom Anderson

I don't know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.

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Newscorp has always been, for us, very easy to work with and they respect our opinions and let us run the site we wanted to. And, in fact, they wanted to keep us on. They weren't saying, hey, let's throw these guys out. They were buying into what MySpace was and the founders, and so it's been very good for me.

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