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- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.
- Eggs
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're complex human beings. I can wear a leather dress and still have an 8-year-old and wipe up the eggs that are on her face.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mentors are like friendships.
- Optimist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a natural optimist.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people are innately good.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.
- Nov 07, 2020
Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think brands are like people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know how to behave without my sleep. I would be a horrible person to be around - cranky.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great napper. I nap in a lot of places.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known Tiffany R. Warren for many years, and we have always shared the goal to promote diversity and inclusion in the creative industries.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.
- Following
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm following the path that was destined for me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bringing your whole self to work is the mantra for me as I sit in my office and do the work, and it's also the mantra as I look out at the community that I'm trying to brand for Uber.
- Companies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies can change. Culture can change.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.
- Powerless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of women have felt really powerless.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.
- Nails
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bite my nails.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm living out my dreams every day.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instagram is a blessing - I love to post about everything I'm doing. The explore page is magical.
- Nov 07, 2020
Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's any secret that there's a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. But that, to me, is actually quite beautiful. It allows me to be fully me because there is no one else to look at and say, 'Oh, I should be more like that.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something to be said about taking the risk. We all know that is where the greatest reward is.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to listen to my Apple Music on my iPhone. I also want to listen to it on my iPad. I want to play it on my Apple TV; I want to be connected everywhere I go. It fits into the puzzle of everything that is Apple, and, therefore, it should not be seen as some sort of separate entity that is trying to find its way.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the intention is then out in the universe.
- Nerd
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm such a brand nerd.
- Good Qualities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's interesting how you can associate a creative brand with a human being and use some of the good qualities of the human being and make it like a really tangible product that a lot of people can love.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to hear LeBron James's Uber stories.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a woman. I'm black. I am passionate. I am transparent.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's our job as marketers and brand professionals to nurture the brand and calm it down when it's angry and to encourage when it's trying to grow.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've broken through many walls and glass ceilings.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, as a marketer, I love to work with brands that aren't static, that have life and personality.
- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple Music is a living, breathing brand.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fear challenge.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think women have a unique talent for being able to see the forest and the trees at the same time.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working at Uber, I see opportunity and potential.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be in an environment that is not conducive to me as a black woman.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's change this.'
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really did enjoy my time at Apple - it's a great company, and I really loved building Apple Music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel really proud of the work I did at Apple Music, and I don't take anything away from it that's negative at all.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't control everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You gotta go with your gut. It will never steer you wrong.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always do what I'm most interested in first.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.
- Corporate
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.
- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I firmly believe brand stories are complex and multilayer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020