Tom Anderson Quotes

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Tom Anderson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 8, 1970

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

Tom Anderson

And I always say sign up for MySpace and see what your kid is doing. Be his friend on MySpace. Know what your child is doing online because you're going to know more there than you'd ever know when he goes to school.

Tom Anderson

We didn't expect it to be cool, with people trading URLs instead of phone numbers.

Tom Anderson

We recognized from the beginning that we could create profiles for the bands and allow people to use the site any way they wanted to. We didn't stop people from promoting whatever they wanted to promote on MySpace.

Tom Anderson

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

Tom Anderson

It made a lot of sense to me that the music part of our site would work for filmmakers as well. They'll be able to upload clips. There will be a section where you can watch what they are doing. They'll tell where their screenings are. It took a lot longer than we wanted to because we were growing so fast.

Tom Anderson

On Friendster, if you were a band and you made a profile, they would delete it. They didn't want bands on their site.

Tom Anderson

Ultimately, our goal is to provide all artists with the opportunity to make a living on MySpace.

Tom Anderson

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

Tom Anderson

I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I'm sort of an alarmist.

Tom Anderson

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

Tom Anderson

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

Tom Anderson

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

Tom Anderson

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

Tom Anderson

Safety' hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been terrorized by what they were reading.

Tom Anderson

Making a website is similar to making a movie-hundreds of people work on it, one person makes the final decision, and they make them every minute of the day.

Tom Anderson

People aren't interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that's one of the big keys here.

Tom Anderson

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

Tom Anderson

We can't allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who's looking at your page. That's a violation of privacy.

Tom Anderson

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.

Tom Anderson