Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

From the perspective of a participant - rabble 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 Docum. 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-. Well-written, the business story is in there amongst the drama, key moments in the company's early days 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 c

The book's four central players--Ev, Jack, Biz, and Noah--conceived of Twitter while working on Odeo, an ultimately doomed attempt to revolutionize podcasting. As their little chick grew, the four men's personal and ideological differences led to a power struggle that eventually left them all on the sidelines as a former stand-up comedian took Twitter into the uncertain future. #HighlyRecommended. That is, Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter delivers "A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," t

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. 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. But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on. The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. 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.. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world. It’s a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes