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Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

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Re: Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

#41

What's curious to me is how Twitter made so few improvements so slowly during the past few years, when its Chinese counterpart, Weibo, could release waves of new features in fast pace. Not that all the new features are good in users' eyes, of course, but isn't fast iteration a motto in the Bay Area?

Don't you think that scaling to handle global growth is a feature?

Re: Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

#42
post #19

Twitter 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.

Problem is that nobody wants them. Two or three years ago there was regular talk about Twitter selling the company, but every potential buyer (e.g. Google) said no in the end. Twitter is just not a very good business, but it does attract a lot of scrutiny due to its size and impact. It has pretty much all the risks of Facebook with none of the cash flow.

> none of the cash flow

Twitter's operations threw off about a billion in cash for the first nine months of 2019 and 2018 [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/0001...

Re: Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

#43
post #41

What's curious to me is how Twitter made so few improvements so slowly during the past few years, when its Chinese counterpart, Weibo, could release waves of new features in fast pace. Not that all the new features are good in users' eyes, of course, but isn't fast iteration a motto in the Bay Area?

Don't you think that scaling to handle global growth is a feature?

Sure, but how come other features can't be released in parallel?

Re: Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

#44
post #37

Drivel. Nothing directly actionable. If a CEO has to be physically in his office to successfully run the company, he has done a poor job in building leadership under him/her. Jack is doing what he should be, finding new growth opportunities. Milking the users with more Ads will just piss off users for short term gains.

I think you meant drivel.

And here is a fine example of how to dribble (via twitter): https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/120241814211214540...

Re: Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

#45
post #6

Man, 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.

Why doesn’t he just serve some nice plain text then?

Re: Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

#47
post #37

Drivel. Nothing directly actionable. If a CEO has to be physically in his office to successfully run the company, he has done a poor job in building leadership under him/her. Jack is doing what he should be, finding new growth opportunities. Milking the users with more Ads will just piss off users for short term gains.

Are you kidding? Twitter is a tech company with a great brand and a monopoly platform that has a stock that performs like a mall chain. The rate of product change is so slow. There are so many opportunities for growth that are not advertising.

Seriously, if you can't push out a CEO for under-performance in this case, when can you.

Re: Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

#48
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chances of that happening are approximately nil, in my estimation. Though I suppose he doesn't lose much by trying.

> Chances of that happening are approximately nil, in my estimation The author has put money behind their estimation. Given Twitter's performance and Galloway's mouthpiece, I wouldn't put organizing its shareholders beyond the realm of plausibility. (Or the Board compromising to take a thorn out of their side.) The battle is really getting the question of a part-time CEO on the agenda, which requires replacing a few…

Replacing with _who_ though? Twitter is not going to be another Facebook or Google no matter who runs it - there's really no meat on the bones there, Jack knows that. And it could get much, much worse if motivated entirely by profit.
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