The Ledger, every show

“Jack Dorsey did not want that book out and he was trying to do everything he could.”

“He no, it's, that, that is all a, it's all a story that he tells.”

“That's what it becomes, and if you, if Jack Dorsey had told the real story about Twitter, that his best friend Noah Glass really was the one that came up with most of it, and he stole it, you know, from him, and like, and that, that place was a shit show, and …”

“Jack, Who is best friends with Noah goes into Ev's office one day and he says, either you get rid of Noah or I quit.”

“And as far as Ev knew, Jack had come up with the idea himself, you know, when he was a little kid listening to fire trucks. That was a story that was added later.”

“Jack is worth twelve billion dollars, give or take. Noah Glass is worth about a zero dollars, ok? He never got anything. Ev gave him something, and he had to live off that and whatnot. If you're worth twelve billion dollars, give the guy ten million.”

“Next thing you know, he's making millions and millions and millions of dollars a day as the biggest drug dealer on the internet.”

“I think he had it all, but whatever reason he had like this Midlife crisis that made him throw it all away.”

“And I think like, I personally believe that your story for a company is more important than anything. I don't care if you have the greatest product in the world. If you can't tell a story about it, well, what's the point?”

“There were other video platforms that were, I would argue, way better than YouTube, and I mean, Vimeo is a perfect example. Vimeo was a thousand times of a better product, and a prettier, easier to, all these things, and YouTube just told a great story, and Go…”

“I am friends with a lot of startup founders who tell me that, like, oh, we got a profile in the New York Times, and we had the biggest influx of customers we've had ever, or we got mentioned, you know, a write-up on here, or whatever it is, and the same thing …”

“People that would leak stuff to me that worked at Apple or Facebook, some of them were so, just so excited to say, oh my god, I worked on this thing, and it was like, and they just want it out there, and they don't have the patience, and you know, and others o…”

“Every time I would talk to him from time to time, and every time it was the same thing. It was like this, he had this ability to make you believe That what you were doing was not the right story, and that this was the way to do it.”

“They stole seventy two million dollars in crypto and then were trying to launder it, and every, they were the only two people on the entire internet who wanted the price of bitcoin to go down. And they had, every time they were trying to launder it would doubl…”

“1600 on his SATs, you know, studied astrophysics went off to a, one of the best schools,”

“What's been interesting is I have this new project that we're doing, And we've been using LLM, Google LLM's notebook. And so now we stuff millions of words into these things and I can just query it. Whereas before we had to build like Excel spreadsheets and da…”