Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dorsey Actively Tried to Prevent the Release of 'Hatching Twitter'
“Jack Dorsey did not want that book out and he was trying to do everything he could.”
Opinion
Dorsey's Peace-Loving Hippie Persona Is an Entirely Engineered Narrative
“He no, it's, that, that is all a, it's all a story that he tells.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Noah Glass Conceived Twitter Before Jack Dorsey Took the Credit
“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 …”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dorsey Gave Ev Williams an Ultimatum to Fire Noah Glass
“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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dorsey Fabricated Twitter's Firetruck Dispatch Origin Story After the Fact
“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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dorsey Reaped $12B While Twitter Co-Founder Noah Glass Got Nothing
“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.”
Assertion Contradicted
Silk Road Founder Made Millions of Dollars a Day
“Next thing you know, he's making millions and millions and millions of dollars a day as the biggest drug dealer on the internet.”
Opinion
Bezos Threw Away His Balanced Life During a Midlife Crisis
“I think he had it all, but whatever reason he had like this Midlife crisis that made him throw it all away.”
Insight
A Company's Narrative Matters More Than Having the Best Product
“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?”
Opinion
Vimeo Was Vastly Superior to YouTube but Lost on Storytelling
“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…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
NYT Profiles Still Drive Massive Customer Influxes for Tech Startups
“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 …”
Insight
Tech Employees Leak Info Out of Ego, Impatience, or Grievance
“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…”
Opinion
Steve Jobs Consistently Convinced Reporters to Drop Critical News Stories
“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.”
Assertion Partly supported
Bitfinex Hackers' Stolen $72M in Crypto Ballooned to $8.4B Peak
“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…”
Assertion Partly supported
Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Scored 1600 on SATs
“1600 on his SATs, you know, studied astrophysics went off to a, one of the best schools,”
Disclosure
Bilton Uses NotebookLM to Parse Millions of Words for Research
“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…”
Nick Bilton