Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
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#2Tweet from the CTO: https://twitter.com/adam_messinger/status/811326653339025408
Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
#3I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave.
The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company.
Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent.
I don't want this to seem inflammatory to people as twitter obviously has some serious engineering talent, but does anyone consider them to be a big name in tech anymore? They seem to be in the range of say PayPal in that they have a decent reputation but they aren't really a name that gets you any resume recognition anymore.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/business/dealbook/twitters...
> By way of comparison, the company reported $2.2 billion in revenue for 2015 — meaning that it paid out 31 cents in stock-based compensation for every dollar of sales it collected.
You're going to be fighting several battles that aren't really engineering related,
- how to finally fix harassment that seems to be much more pronounced on your platform than pretty much any other mainstream social media site.
- how to get alot more advertising dollars on your site to an audience that short of reddit, seems to dislike advertising more than most social media sites.
And on top of all of this, you're probably going to have to shrink your engineering head count to make yourself look more appetizing to potential acquirers.
Yikes......
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#4It feels like Twitter the company should be imploding, but it must be a secure business if its the next president's primary communication channel.
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#5It feels like Twitter the company should be imploding, but it must be a secure business if its the next president's primary communication channel.
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#6I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave. The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company. Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent. I don't want this to seem inflammat…
The moment Dick left was when I felt a disturbance in the twitterverse (but I also have a disdain for Dorsey).
It kind of felt weird to me that Twitter went from this platform of literally starting revolutions to managing expectations of its users in the name "fighting harassment".
I now use it simply to tweet out my latest recipes...
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#7Bigger to me is the VP of Product - Josh McFarland - just bailed out 30 minutes ago too:
https://twitter.com/crazyfoo/status/811331557608652800
AKA outside of Dorsey, who is a split / shared CEO, who is in charge of Twitter?
Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
#8I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave. The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company. Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent. I don't want this to seem inflammat…
> They seem to be in the range of say PayPal in that they have a decent reputation but they aren't really a name that gets you any resume recognition anymore.
PayPal doesn't get you "name recognition" anymore? In fact I would expect Twitter would garner more because of their larger open source initiatives but I still hear lots of chatter about PayPal and the people who have worked there.
Maybe I'm just in a weird bubble but I still consider PayPal one of the big tech names.
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#9It feels like Twitter the company should be imploding, but it must be a secure business if its the next president's primary communication channel.
Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him.
Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. I doubt he has loyalty to Twitter and would jump ship to another company that puts him on a pedestal. He would enjoy seeing the millions of customers who follow him.
Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
#10I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave. The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company. Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent. I don't want this to seem inflammat…
> a big name in tech anymore
Donald Trump is making headlines using Twitter every day. I think that once users/victims become immune to Facebook's dark patterns, Twitter will look pretty good. The only thing it can do to screw that up is continue censoring content and allowing botnets.