Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey
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Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey
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#2> And, by nearly every metric, he had achieved remarkable success. Under his tenure, the company had grown from 300 employees to around 4,100.
Eurgh. I never understand how the number of employees you have can be a success metric. By that logic, becoming more efficient would be a bad thing.
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#3> And, by nearly every metric, he had achieved remarkable success. Under his tenure, the company had grown from 300 employees to around 4,100. Eurgh. I never understand how the number of employees you have can be a success metric. By that logic, becoming more efficient would be a bad thing.
It would mean something in a profitable company as growing the workforce and keeping a company profitable is a considerable challenge.
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#4No.
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#5No.
Perhaps HN should enforce a minimum comment length, like at least 3 words... One word comments clearly don't add value to a discussion.
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#6Twitter has an incredibly powerful brand and appeal. How many companies can say they triggered revolutions?
Yet it's puzzling how much it fails to improve its basic product, 1 year in Dorsey's comeback. On mobile, the search/explore screens are mostly irrelevant. On desktop, they could position themselves as quasi TV channels with live content update.
Yes, they lost the social wars and that's fine. They won the media war: Twitter's mindshare vs its actual engagement rates makes it an amazing opportunity.
Really hope it doesn't fade into a glorified RSS feed and manages to build on the intensity of its content.
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#7> And, by nearly every metric, he had achieved remarkable success. Under his tenure, the company had grown from 300 employees to around 4,100. Eurgh. I never understand how the number of employees you have can be a success metric. By that logic, becoming more efficient would be a bad thing.
It would mean something in a profitable company as growing the workforce and keeping a company profitable is a considerable challenge.
And Twitter has never turned a profit
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#8The company is still far too bloated, contributing to the fact that it's financials don't remotely support its valuation.
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#10Can't companies and products simply hit a natural limit? There are inherent limitations to any given "thing" and perhaps Twitter has found its own terminal velocity.