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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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He has ran both companies simultaneously in the past via 16 hour work days: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/14/jack-dorsey-do...

Which is insane, and not sustainable.

How do you know? Plenty of people work 16 hour days. Of course, it's not for everyone, but it's tough to say what's sustainable for someone else.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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uBlock is your friend https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock#getting-started

uBlock Origin is a better friend. :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

How does it differ from uBlock (or, how is it better?)

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Removing and preventing fake accounts should be they're no. 1 priority.

What do you mean by fake account? People not using their real name on twitter? Or spam bot accounts and stuff?

I fear they might be tempted to attack the later by attacking the former.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Seriously, what was Sacca thinking when he pressed the publish button on that Twitter piece?

I'm half way through and it's just insane. He spilled the beans for every product that Twitter could build in the coming couple of years for everyone to see.

Couldn't he just have sent those recommendations or feature requests to the top management and spared them the public humiliation or giving the competition free ideas and inteliigence?!!

This is just ridiculous.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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You've got it the other way around. A forceful push is very likely to lead to a huge severance package (because that's the cost of getting someone to go quietly and stay for the transition). So the fact that he doesn't get a severance package leads me to believe it was voluntary.

It's a high class way for him to leave, that may set up other options for him in the future (VC, Professorship, etc) that wouldn't be there if it was an ugly breakup. Given that the stock traded at all time lows, no severance was justified. https://www.google.com/finance?cid=32086821185414

That didn't stop Leo Apothekar for collecting $30 million in severance after tanking HP.

Nor did it stop Stephen Elop from collecting $25 million after running Nokia's devices business into the ground/arms of Microsoft (although I think technically that was structured as a "bonus")

Reminds me of some quote I heard somewhere: "CEO: where success is rewarded handsomely and failure only slightly less so"

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Then you end up with the "postal service".

Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.

Which only survives by selling our addresses and delivering 100s of billions of pieces of spam to our mailbox. The legitimate mail for which i ostensibly exists is drying up quickly.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Then you end up with the "postal service".

Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.

> Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime.

You have to be kidding! The USPS is a disaster and barely works. I'm about to cancel my prime membership because Amazon started using the USPS although Amazon have finally got the message at least for my account and rarely use them now. Look up Prime and USPS if you want to see pages and pages just how bad service is with the USPS.

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Which is insane, and not sustainable.

How do you know? Plenty of people work 16 hour days. Of course, it's not for everyone, but it's tough to say what's sustainable for someone else.

Well, sure. All I know is that if I was an investor in Twitter I would not be happy with it.

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uBlock Origin is a better friend. :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

How does it differ from uBlock (or, how is it better?)

It's maintained by the original author. The readme is a good place to start researching, but it's not that interesting a topic tbh.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md

Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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and he's also getting a nice return on his angel investment in tellapart . . . which twitter acquired a month ago for $.5 Billion.

That sounds a bit sketchy, did no one call him out for that?

"Conflict of interest" is not a phrase found in the Silicon Valley dialect of English
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