Hatching Twitter

Those decisions made him look like the bad guy in some cases, but kept Twitter moving forward and growing. The first of those tough decisions was to remove Glass from his early leadership of Twitter, despite his enthusiasm for the product and his overall likeability.

As Bilton portrays it, Glass was going through personal problems at the time, was erratic, and was hurting team moral. So, Ev, who had controlling interest in the company, eventually had to remove Glass as leader.

Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton – review

More famously, Williams later pushed Dorsey aside as Twitter was skyrocketing to success. While this was widely portrayed as an ego struggle between Twitter's "inventor" Dorsey and its largest shareholder Williams. Hatching Twitter characterizes it as Dorsey being unable to stabilize Twitter while it suffered from repeated " Fail Whale " outages and technical architecture problems, as well as Jack's difficulties adjusting to his first big leadership role.

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Williams and Twitter's board of directors acted decisively to replace Jack with Ev as CEO in October to handle Twitter's explosive growth with a leader who had more operational experience running a company. Both Williams and the board acknowledged that Dorsey had showed potential as a leader, but Twitter couldn't wait for him to learn and mature.

It was rocketing into widespread public attention and suffering from massive technological, operational, and staffing challenges. Williams got Twitter stabilized, solidified its core values, and set it on a course to eventually become the respected public company it is today.

Of course, Dorsey went on to earn his stripes as a CEO by starting Square , which turned into a success of its own but developed at a much more measured pace that allowed Dorsey to grow into the role. Ironically, two years after Williams pushed Dorsey aside as Twitter CEO, Dorsey led a revenge-motivated whispering campaign against Williams to undermine confidence in his leadership. However, when Williams was unseated as CEO in , he was eventually pushed all the way out of the company, despite his willingness to compromise and take a background role.

Even though he was by far the largest individual shareholder in the company which made him a billionaire when Twitter launched its IPO on Nov.

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Maybe Williams needed to go in order for Twitter to take its next step forward. But, he certainly wasn't afforded any of the respect that he gave to Glass or Dorsey when Williams had to make the difficult decisions to move them out of leadership roles at critical moments in Twitter's development. That certainly makes the case for nice guys finishing last, although Williams' moves allowed Twitter to survive and thrive and he was amply rewarded when the company went public.

As a general rule, no one ever feels sorry for billionaires.

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

Ultimately, I respect both Dorsey and Williams for the good things they've contributed to the world through technology. At Square, Dorsey has helped lower the cost and quicken the process of taking credit card payments for small businesses. This has empowered millions of artists, entrepreneurs, and sole proprietors. Sep 30, Pages Buy. Nov 05, Pages Buy. Nov 05, Minutes Buy. Sep 30, Pages.

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Nov 05, Pages. Nov 05, Minutes. The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world. But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on. Drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails, Bilton offers a rarely-seen glimpse of the inner workings of technology startups, venture capital, and Silicon Valley culture.

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