In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.

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