Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

A week before the 2020 US Presidential election, former Twitter
CEO Dick Costolo joins us to tell the story of a company that has
impacted all of our lives (political and otherwise) like none
other. While it's easy to forget now, a very viable alternate
history exists where it's Twitter, not Facebook, who owns
Instagram, and Vine, not TikTok, that's the global platform for
mobile video. We dive into it all on this episode — and of course
while we had Dick, we also had to discuss his controversial
recent deleted tweet. 





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Links:


Ashish Goel at Stanford:
https://web.stanford.edu/~ashishg/twitter.html

Dick and Adam's new firm, 01 Advisors: https://01a.com/



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