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How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by kzhahou »

artwork wrote: post #37
n0us wrote: post #2

I think his status as a single child-free person goes understated in this article. It takes a special kind of husband/wife to be okay with someone who works this hard and not having to juggle a home life frees up his schedule to a huge degree. I can imagine working hard 18hr days while still in my 30s, but I cannot imagine doing that while maintaining a marriage and taking care of a kid or two. The guy is a billionai…

The article does state his status. In any case, not everyone wants to have a spouse and/or children.

I'm not sure anyone here said that everyone should be married with kids.

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by boomzilla »

influx wrote: post #21

Jack actually walked out of the Twitter meeting where they were explaining the layoffs to the leftover employees. I'm sure he had an important meeting though.

FTA even the chairman of the board who, by definition, is Jack's direct boss had to taxicab him to have their weekly one on one. I am not sure I buy this, unless Jack is avoiding these meetings. WTF else is Jack doing? For God's sake, the other guy is not just some type of investment bank MBAs, he's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Kordestani and was early employee and executive at both Netscape and Google.

I really think the future is bleak for both Twitter and Square.

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by harigov »

This article is as bland as it gets. How does Jack Dorsey run both Twitter and Square? By managing his time. Of course, we know he manages time, which is the biggest constraint in accomplishing the task of managing two companies. How exactly does he manage time? Said that, I believe the only reason this is in news is because some investors are worried that Jack Dorsey being a CEO of two companies will affect the company's performance, and this article is sharing Twitter/Square's view that Jack Dorsey isn't alone and that there are other CEO's who did that.

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by bobsbigboy »

dang wrote: post #32
x1024 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't downvoting such an opinion enough? Do we pretend that banning will pacify people that want to stir trouble?

Empirically, no, it's nowhere near enough. Also, sometimes such comments get upvoted.

If you can't trust the community's votes, perhaps the voting system should be viewed as a failed experiment. I'm not being facetious.

After all, if you look at HN's front page five or six years ago, and compare it to the front page today, you'll see that HN used to be a legitimately useful tool for entrepreneurs; whereas now it is primarily a source of frivolous distractions. There's almost nothing on this site that helps entrepreneurs.

I understand that YC gets some benefits from the move to lower common denominator content; but in the long run do you all really want to be associated with a site that destroys more value than it creates? Because that is where HN is now. The true entrepreneurial community is gone. The voting is now useless.

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by GFK_of_xmaspast »

wyclif wrote: post #38
fao_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the Wall Street Journal, it is essentially articles written for CEOs and their staff; what do you expect?

As of 2013, the WSJ had a print circulation of 2.4 million, and 900,000 digital subscribers. Do you seriously think all of those people are CEOs and staff? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal

CEOs, their staff, and their idolators.

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by deelowe »

frutiger wrote: post #12
danpalmer wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Would you guys agree that Jack Dorsey is a good CEO? No, from what I've heard, Square isn't a particularly nice place to work - with very poor work-life balances throughout the company, and Dorsey micro-manages every little detail of design and product. Twitter, on the other hand doesn't appear to be doing particularly well, as evidenced by the current share price, and the large amount of criticism from the tech co…

Not that I have an opinion on Twitter, but > and the large amount of criticism from the tech community has never been a particularly good oracle (Apple and Microsoft are two prominent examples).

Apple was lauded for years by the tech world for many reasons: dominance in audio/video/image production, the switch to a bsd based os, their dev kits, etc...

Microsoft has suffered greatly from the tech world's hatred. And, one has to wonder how different the mobile world would be if MS had built a better/more open community around their brand.

The techies, developers, etc... are the early adopters. They are the ones that are needed to keep your products fresh and relevant. Once they leave, the company is left with the unwashed masses and the platform stagnates (e.g. Microsoft).

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by geofft »

wyclif wrote: post #38
fao_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the Wall Street Journal, it is essentially articles written for CEOs and their staff; what do you expect?

As of 2013, the WSJ had a print circulation of 2.4 million, and 900,000 digital subscribers. Do you seriously think all of those people are CEOs and staff? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal

Google's results for "how many companies are there in the US" bring up a bunch of credible-looking hits putting the number in the multiples of millions.

Put another way, 2.4 million + 900,000 is a bit over one percent of the US population. I've heard the phrase "one percent" before...

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by goodJobWalrus »

geofft wrote: post #47
wyclif wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As of 2013, the WSJ had a print circulation of 2.4 million, and 900,000 digital subscribers. Do you seriously think all of those people are CEOs and staff? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal

Google's results for "how many companies are there in the US" bring up a bunch of credible-looking hits putting the number in the multiples of millions. Put another way, 2.4 million + 900,000 is a bit over one percent of the US population. I've heard the phrase "one percent" before...

WSJ is sold and read worldwide tho.

On that note, I used to get it for free (as did everyone else) as a student at my European university.

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by HiLo »

dopamean wrote: post #27
HiLo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hear you, I really do, but plenty of guys in finance and trading work these hours and are expected to maintain regular families.

My experience growing up in New York and going to school with lots of kids of fathers in finance was very much the opposite. There was zero expectation that they maintain regular families.

Haha touche

Re: How Jack Dorsey Runs Both Twitter, Square

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Post by mschuster91 »

dang wrote: post #24
[deleted] wrote: post #19

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You've posted many uncivil comments to HN. We've asked you more than once not do this. If you can't or won't stop, we will ban your account. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10798178 and marked it off-topic.

Huh, I can't see anything uncivil in the post you linked to. Copypasted the wrong one?
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