This could be like Steve Jobs coming back to Apple, or it could be like Marc Pincus coming back to Zynga. Hopefully the former.
I think it's going to be more like Jerry Yang coming back to Yahoo -- not much of a change either way.
Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down
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#12After listening to "Hatching Twitter" I don't think the founding team could work together again however, I think one of the founders should run the company.
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#13Twitter stock is up 7% on the news: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR%2C+&ql=1
It's gotta be a weird feeling when getting fired causes your company to gain 1.7B in value.
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#14I guess he couldn't invert a binary tree. Idiot.
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#15Yesterday: "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo laughs off 'crazy' calls for his resignation"[0]
[0] (warning: auto-play video on page) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-laughs-off...
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#16I know Ev Williams is working on Medium (which I love) but it would be awesome if he would return to Twitter. Back to the original founding team.
Ev as CEO would be a better call than Jack, IMO. Ev's passion is still in a related space where as I don't think Jack's heart is as connected to the Twitter product as it is to Square these days. Really though, I'd take a random bum off the street as CEO before Anthony Noto. So there's that.
Completely agree. I love his philosophy on product. What he has done at Medium shows how he can build a product. It's incredible.
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#17I think Dorsey is too minimalistic. It was the reason why Twitter is losing traffic to IG and Medium (ironic). Vine lost to IG video because you couldn't follow Vine accounts via the Twitter website at the beginning. Take Square for example, it had a huge head start, but no business other than small coffee shops and food trucks can use it. https://medium.com/@hungrycharles/3-things-twitter-can-do-to...
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#18Having a founder and product visionary (Jack) in the driver's seat at Twitter is absolutely the right move. Sure, Jack has his quirks, and seems a little bit crazy and minimalistic, but that's exactly what makes him the right person for the job. Twitter is executing on its vision now just fine, but that's just the problem: There hasn't been any vision left in the company. No truly big moves have been made, and the pr…
Keep in mind Jack Dorsey the interim CEO, so it's only temporary until they find a permanent CEO.
Jack is a wild card. They'll give him a shot and see how it goes.
If it goes well they can pull an Apple and say, "The founder is finally coming back!" If not they can quietly find a replacement and say, "Now Jack is going back to Square, just like they said he always would."
It's PR insurance, basically, which Twitter desperately needs considering they go through CEOs faster than I go through freelancers.
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#19Who is going to run Square in the interim then? Is he going to pull a Elon Musk, 3 days here, and 2 days there?
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#20Yesterday: "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo laughs off 'crazy' calls for his resignation"[0] [0] (warning: auto-play video on page) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-laughs-off...
I had 2 autoplay videos and 1 popup, ibtimes has really gone to shit.