Pete Cashmore
Pete Cashmore
Pete Cashmoreis the CEO and founder of the popular blog Mashable, a Technorati Top 10 blog worldwide. He grew up in Banchory, and founded Mashable in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2005 at age 19...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth18 September 1985
Pete Cashmore quotes about
years people age
I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.
creativity ideas creating
Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.
talking people randomness
Talk to people no one else is talking to.
marketing execution shapes
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
motivational way hard
I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.
passion technology matter
That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you.
business attention radio
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.
lonely simple giving
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.
gun media smoking
Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.
two people events
Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that's on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.
passion people talent
The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
stress space long
You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.
past giving challenges
I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.
issues people different
The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.