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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

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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.

He's still be on the board as well. He probably stepped down mostly of his own accord; he didn't fight to become the CEO in the first place (even tried to turn it down multiple times). He was kind of thrown in there by the board when they fired Ev

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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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.

I don't think he can do that to Square and their investors as nice as the story sounds.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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post #13

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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.

> Where is that value coming from?

From the $2 Billion in revenue and the 74% YOY increase in revenue, mostly https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=...

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Is there a link to an explanation...or a set of words...somewhere...that explains what's going on with Twitter or why this happened?

Here is a link to the Pres Release from Twitter - https://www.scribd.com/doc/268409558/Twitter-Initiates-CEO-T...

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Having 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…

The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don't really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that's impossible now because it's been "monetized."

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

He's still be on the board as well. He probably stepped down mostly of his own accord; he didn't fight to become the CEO in the first place (even tried to turn it down multiple times). He was kind of thrown in there by the board when they fired Ev

I just bought "Hatching Twitter" yesterday, so I guess this might be a spoiler, but why did they fire Ev?

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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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.

Uniqlo? Whole Foods?

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