I hope this is a predecessor for him taking over from Jack Dorsey. I don't understand how anyone thinks Dorsey can run both Twitter and Square at the same time.
Lieutenants. Elon.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is returning to the company
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Alternatively, twitters market cap went up 1.4%, which is well within the usual ups and downs of normal trading throughout the day. Maybe it was because of this. Maybe it was because some analyst put out a piece on a private feed that said "Twitter might make more money someday".
" more money"? They've yet to make any money.
Looking at their financials, they make tons of money. They just spend gigatons of money. The revenue side of the equation is looking quite healthy, actually.
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Rabble was the first Eng hire at Odeo, the podcasting startup founded by Noah Glass and Evan Williams. When Odeo didn't gain enough traction and they were figuring out what to do next, a small Odeo team (which included Jack) prototyped Twttr. And the rest is history.
Well, we still had to scale it.
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#44Just what Twitter needs-- another employee.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rabble was the first Eng hire at Odeo, the podcasting startup founded by Noah Glass and Evan Williams. When Odeo didn't gain enough traction and they were figuring out what to do next, a small Odeo team (which included Jack) prototyped Twttr. And the rest is history.
Well, we still had to scale it.
Yeah, huge amounts of work from prototype to world changing platform happened after i left. Nobody created twitter, rather it was the collective work of many.
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#46I know a lot of the early history, I worked there when we hired both Jack and Biz. I can tell you that it's a really good thing that Biz is back on board. Biz was able to articulate what twitter was as the human voice of the company in both directions. From day one the question was always, what does Biz do. Biz bounced around but when he was there things were better. Kind of like the basketball player that Nate Silve…
Thanks for your post. I'm curious about what you mean by "I was there when we hired Jack and Biz" though. Were they not founders?
Twitter started out as Odeo, we started with Ev's investment in Noah Glass's idea for a podcasting platform in 2004. After a few months in early 2005 Ev joined full time. Biz and Jack joined in the fall of 2005 almost a year in to the company. Twitter itself was created as a prototype in Feb 2006, and the current version was launched as a side project in March 2006.
Companies name co-founders based on what's useful going forward and of the dozen or so folks who were at Odeo when twitter was created it made most sense to name Ev, Jack, and Biz as cofounders. Goldman probably turned down the offer to be named as a cofounder, and the rest of us weren't given an option. Later Hatching Twitter came out and Noah was added to the list of founders.
Starting companies is hard, running them is hard, the drama of who said and did what is interesting but it doesn't teach us much about why the platform ended up like it did or provide insights in to creating new companies.
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Thanks for your post. I'm curious about what you mean by "I was there when we hired Jack and Biz" though. Were they not founders?
Rabble was the first Eng hire at Odeo, the podcasting startup founded by Noah Glass and Evan Williams. When Odeo didn't gain enough traction and they were figuring out what to do next, a small Odeo team (which included Jack) prototyped Twttr. And the rest is history.
Ah, thanks for the clarification!
Re: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is returning to the company
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Thanks for your post. I'm curious about what you mean by "I was there when we hired Jack and Biz" though. Were they not founders?
Twitter started out as Odeo, we started with Ev's investment in Noah Glass's idea for a podcasting platform in 2004. After a few months in early 2005 Ev joined full time. Biz and Jack joined in the fall of 2005 almost a year in to the company. Twitter itself was created as a prototype in Feb 2006, and the current version was launched as a side project in March 2006. Companies name co-founders based on what's useful g…
Thanks for the clarification! Wasn't thinking pre-Twitter.