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Early press reports actively erased Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Noah Glass
“They not only kicked him out of Twitter, they tried to write him out of the history, and I know this very well because I was reading at the time The reports, and they would mention Biz, and they would mention Ev as the founders of Twitter, and they would omit …”
Jack Dorsey had never been a manager before becoming Twitter's CEO
“Jack went from individual contributor, he had never been a manager, I believe, before he became CEO of this very fast-growing company,”
Best: Substack traffic from Twitter had steadily declined for years by 2023
“By the time it went down, the share of Substack traffic that was coming from Twitter had been on a steady decline for years.”
Twitter grew tenfold in valuation and headcount during Williams' CEO tenure
“The company grew 10 X in users and employees and valuation in the two years I was CEO”
Displaying live tweets on SXSW 2007 hallway screens created Twitter's tipping point
“Basically, everybody, everybody there got on Twitter. And, you know, it was a few thousand people, and again, lots of journalists, lots of bloggers, and so then they talked about it and wrote about it. It was a moment, just capturing lightning in a bottle amon…”