Twitter's conflict-averse board never gave Williams negative feedback before firing him
Ev Williams · Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams · May 6, 2024 · at 1:05:35
Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, discusses his 2010 ouster as CEO and the internal conflict aversion among the board and executives.
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“Somewhat ironically, the board of Twitter had a lot of conflict aversion. Because they never, never gave me that feedback to my face. I didn't know I was going to be fired at all, because no one ever told me I was doing a bad job. So there was a whole culture of conflict diversion, and my execs, who were complaining about me to the board, also weren't telling me. Everyone was avoiding conflict.”
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