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Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down
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#12$10M position in what is essentially the leaking sewer of the Internet? I thought he was smarter than that.
It’s an activist position. The thesis is the company becomes more valuable if he succeeds in removing or sidelining Dorsey.
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#13I don't see his actual criticism of Dorsey? Looks more like a political clickbait article without any substance
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#14I think it makes total sense to question if a CEO can be part-time and be effective (I agree with the author of this post, they can't). That being said, this post is all over the place.
> Greatness is in the agency of others, and many talented executives have left the firm.
Uh huh. Twitter has always succeeded in spite of itself. There's never been any innovation and execution has been middling at best. I don't think there were ever "great" executives on board, and if there was, they didn't accomplish anything.
The rest of the post is just a stereotypical political rant about Russian bots and Trump. If there's a problem with the culture of Twitter's user base, much of the blame must lie on those with blue checkmarks. It's a toxic community.
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#15$10M position in what is essentially the leaking sewer of the Internet? I thought he was smarter than that.
It’s an activist position. The thesis is the company becomes more valuable if he succeeds in removing or sidelining Dorsey.
Chances of that happening are approximately nil, in my estimation. Though I suppose he doesn't lose much by trying.
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#16Jack Dorsey didnt want the job in the first place, they had to beg him to come back. Twitter was even more of a dumpster fire back then. No one wanted to buy the company and no one wanted to take the helm. The only thing that saved the company (which the article mentions as well) is Trump used it during his 2016 campaign and helped revive a company that should have died then.
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#17> Political scandals happen daily under this administration. The president has tweeted about nuclear war. He becomes more erratic under pressure. How will the next bout of nuclear war tweets be handled? Whom, if not the CEO, are those delegated to?
Beyond nearly everything else, this sums up my deep concern with Twitter/Trump.
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#18Man, why does a simple blog need so much JavaScript? (Sorry, I know this is not the most productive of comments, but I am genuinely curious to know. Also, if not me, someone else is inevitably going to say it, I suspect).
Maybe all the author cares about is writing and content? I don't think this is an issue at all for the majority of people. Remember that you (and people visit/comment on articles on this orange site) are the 0.01% of people in the world that care about JavaScript being an issue.
Yes, really. Browsing HN comments feels like I'm good friends with a generally friendly elderly construction worker who for some reason has a real stick in his ass about grouting. Everywhere we go together, houses, bars, museums, whatever, he never stops complaining about the grouting, pointing out places here and there where "that's not gonna hold up in twenty years" and "that poor grouting is why we get the occasional gust of cold air in here" etc etc. And while I appreciate he knows what he's talking about and yes maybe we would all be better if builders the world over got their act together and did the grouting better, I just wish for once he wouldn't bring the damn subject up and talk about something else, something more interesting, something new when we visit a place.
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#19Twitter hiring Anthony Noto was one of the worst. They need to replace the board which essentially means someone needs to acquire them in order to unlock the potentials.
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#20I think it makes total sense to question if a CEO can be part-time and be effective (I agree with the author of this post, they can't). That being said, this post is all over the place. > Greatness is in the agency of others, and many talented executives have left the firm. Uh huh. Twitter has always succeeded in spite of itself. There's never been any innovation and execution has been middling at best. I don't think…
I’m pretty convinced that any community with a global broadcast layer trends towards tragedy.