Elman reveals he was kicked out of Twitter during product restructuring
Josh Elman · 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next · Apr 4, 2016 · at 4:07
Josh Elman, then a product leader who worked at LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and later a partner at Greylock, recounts his departure from Twitter before entering venture capital.
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“And then, you know, I honestly got kicked out of Twitter. You know, I in some of the turmoil of Twitter, they were restructuring the product team and asked me not to go to work the next day.”
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