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

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The dramatic, unlikely story in the back of the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling creator and Vanity Fair special correspondent

The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has transform a powerful force in less than ten years. 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 all over live TV events to President Trump’s preferred method of communication. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the place the world.
But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on.

In this rousing history that reads like a novel, Hatching Twitter takes readers in the back of 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 unintentionally.  It’s a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles over money, influence, and regulate over a company that was growing faster than they could ever consider.

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.
An Amazon 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. The book’s four central players–Ev, Jack, Biz, and Noah–conceived of Twitter at the same time as 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. 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. If you’re on the lookout for a thoughtful rumination about Twitter as a revolutionary global communications platform, keep looking. If you’re on the lookout for a quick, well-written, thoroughly researched human drama, the story of an utterly dysfunctional foursome and the accelerated unraveling of their once brilliant partnership, this is your book. #HighlyRecommended. —Jason Kirk (@brasswax)

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