Odeo

“Which is also one of the reasons I missed the early investment, because I didn't invest in Odeo, but by the time they were going with Twitter, it was already gone. And I missed it.”

“We made the mistake of actually raising too much money pre-product, really even pre-product, we raised five million dollars, which was a terrible mistake because it allowed us to grow the team to the point where We just weren't nimble enough to easily pivot”

“One of my fundamental rules, I can believe, is if, unless you are really good at user research, Build, build products for yourself.”

“We also had Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram. Was working for us as an intern. So, Kevin and Jack paired to write our, I think our installable podcatcher, as we called them.”

“I actually went to the board. I think we had three of the five million dollars left. And said, I can't sell you on the future of this company. Maybe we should just give the money back and go away. And the board was like, well, we didn't invest in podcasting. W…”

“I do remember a conversation where at first there was a version of what became Twitter presented that had audio, and I remember asking, what if it didn't have the audio piece?”

“You know, for the book Hatching Twitter, I'm the only person at Odeo who refused to be interviewed for that book, and basically I did it so that I could write my own book one day.”

“It wasn't that the co-founders were feuding at the, or that there was any sort of scandal. It was just, they're constantly trying to upgrade the team in order to keep up with what Twitter ended up being, which, you know, obviously had nothing to do with where …”

“The you know, the whole team was really chaotic, and I mostly spent time dealing with other people's problems, and Jack was the only reliable person.”