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Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

#23

I 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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Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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post #13
post #7

Twitter 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.

I'm sure he's getting a nice golden parachute in Twitter stock.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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post #19

Who is going to run Square in the interim then? Is he going to pull a Elon Musk, 3 days here, and 2 days there?

Only instead of being 500 miles apart, Twitter and Square are closer to 500 feet apart.

Maybe Jack located them close together for a reason.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

#27
Unless the new CEO had a ongoing positive relationship with the former CEO and company, it appears to be really hard to keep things working and have a long-term vision.

From Wikipedia:

>Although his 2010 takeover as CEO was supposed to be temporary, while CEO Evan Williams was on paternity leave, it eventually became a permanent position

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

#28
post #23

I 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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Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

#29

I 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...

> Take Square for example, it had a huge head start, but no business other than small coffee shops and food trucks can use it.

What makes you say that?

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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post #13
post #7

Twitter 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.

Where is that value coming from? Are they even profitable? Stock value means jack shit.
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