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and they will make money how? their expenses sure will go up.
Mandatory promoted tweets for 3rd party clients maybe? I use a 3rd party android twitter client due to its superior UX compared to the official app, but I wouldn't mind getting served promoted tweets in that client at all.
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They have to pre-pay 75 years worth, including future employees
It's not 75 years and it's not for future employees. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/unraveling-the-myth-that-t...
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…
I think we tend to overuse the word visionary quite a bit these days in the industry. Have you read the book by other Twitter founder who was ousted? He paints a different picture of Jack. Jack is no slouch but a visionary? He is not in the same league as Elon Musk. Jack is a hipster in a suit; he is smart and has carefully crafted his public persona (probably inspired by Jobs and modeled his persona after his ideas)…
We should also be careful not to base our impressions on sensational stories spun by disgruntled ex-employees who've gone on to do jack squat. Not a lot of "hipsters in a suit" have gone on to found a second multi-billion dollar company (Square). Sure, we can debate how good a business Square is but it's clearly in "visionary" product territory. It changed its industry.
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I think it's going to be more like Jerry Yang coming back to Yahoo -- not much of a change either way.
Jerry Yang's investment in Alibaba turned out to be worth over $42 billion dollars which accounts for most of the value of Yahoo today...
"In 2005, under Yang’s direction but before he took over as CEO in 2007, Yahoo! purchased a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China, valued at $700 million."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang_(entrepreneur)#Alib...
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I think we tend to overuse the word visionary quite a bit these days in the industry. Have you read the book by other Twitter founder who was ousted? He paints a different picture of Jack. Jack is no slouch but a visionary? He is not in the same league as Elon Musk. Jack is a hipster in a suit; he is smart and has carefully crafted his public persona (probably inspired by Jobs and modeled his persona after his ideas)…
You don't have to be Elon Musk to be a "product visionary". It's simply someone who's good at envisioning new products. They don't all have to save the planet (and Musk is standing on the shoulders of giants with his). We should also be careful not to base our impressions on sensational stories spun by disgruntled ex-employees who've gone on to do jack squat. Not a lot of "hipsters in a suit" have gone on to found a…
We risk running out of superlatives if we take that attitude. Can we reserve 'visionary' for those 'once in a generation' types and not degrade it to mean 'competent product manager'.
"On Twitter" - http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/12/on-twitter/
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Also, you can make up your own mind about this:
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8761731/twitter-trouble-faceboo...
http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2...
https://medium.com/@michaeledwards/re-imaging-twitter-ea4e11...
http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engage...
https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/
http://blog.higg.im/twitters-self-immolation/
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulo...
http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b...
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…
I think we tend to overuse the word visionary quite a bit these days in the industry. Have you read the book by other Twitter founder who was ousted? He paints a different picture of Jack. Jack is no slouch but a visionary? He is not in the same league as Elon Musk. Jack is a hipster in a suit; he is smart and has carefully crafted his public persona (probably inspired by Jobs and modeled his persona after his ideas)…
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I don't think he can do that to Square and their investors as nice as the story sounds.
He has ran both companies simultaneously in the past via 16 hour work days: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/14/jack-dorsey-do...
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The same ones private corporations are required to follow.
Show me a private corporation that is legally required to fully pre-fund pensions 75 years in advance for every employee, including all potential future employees, and I'll eat my hat.