Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591846013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political oppression in the Middle East to a marketing must-have to the world’s living room during live TV events to President Trump’s preferred method of communication. Drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails, Bilton offers a rarely-seen glimpse of the inner workings of technology startups, venture capital, and Silicon Valley culture.. In this rousing history that reads like a novel, Hatching Twitter takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter’s early exponential growth, following the four hackers—Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, who created the cultural juggernaut practically by accident. It’s a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles over money, influence, and control over a company that was growing faster than they could ever imagine. But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world. The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselli
#HighlyRecommended. Writing with the pacing and veracity of detail of a true-crime book, Bilton makes use of a trove of source material--from internal Twitter e-mails to extensive interviews with and early tweets by the founders themselves--and the result is as exciting and fast-paced as it is topically relevant. An Best Book of the Month, November 2013: Spoiler alert: The subtitle sorta says it all. That is, Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter delivers "A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," though not necessarily in that order. If you're looking for a thoughtful rumination about Twitter as a revolutionary global communications platform, keep looking. If you're looking for a quick, well-written, thoroughly researched human drama, the story of an utterly dysfunctio
Rabble said From the perspective of a participant - rabble. I'm Rabble, one of the people who helped start Odeo and i'm mentioned a bunch in the first couple chapters. This review might not be useful for evaluating the book as something to read, but i figured this might be a decent forum to provide a review.The story is very well told. It's a captivating read. It's very surreal to read about your friends and former co-workers in a book like this. Most of us live our lives only ourselves. Having this book is kind of like having a well researched MTV Rock Documentary a. Steve C. said Corporate-Bio-Slash-Soap-Opera. As far as Twitter itself goes, I was first addicted to it, then became disenchanted with and detached from it, and finally was almost completely uninterested in it. Given that, I wasn’t sure how much I would enjoy Hatching Twitter, an account of the birth and growth of the company. However, the book held my interest throughout. This is fascinating stuff, filled with large personalities, larger egos, Machiavellian power plays, and friends backstabbing friends. Think of it as Corporate-Bio-Slash-Soap-Ope. Well-written, the business story is in there amongst the drama, key moments in the company's early days Neil Isenberg Review for: Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and BetrayalOVERVIEW:The broad lesson of the story is about individual and collective contribution. The founders each brought their own strengths, resources, ideas, and skills to the table. It is easy to imagine Twitter not being what it is today without all their contributions. This book helps give credit to both the known and some of the important less well known contributors, for example Noah Glass in the early days and Ev's contribut