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the fact that we're not in the same it's pretty far wal yeah yeah it's like it is a very distinct line and I think that that you know I I will only work for an institution that uh that continues to keep that line
The New York Times has a tiny little Bureau here we've got like 15 people or something like that
I don't think that they need to try to compete I think the New York Times continues to do what it does well which is great journalism and everything else to me all that other stuff it has literally become the equivalent of television on the internet right these these lists of you know the top 30 people under 30 the top 100 people that went to the toilet today the top you know you name it they are they are it's reality television you just click it you look at it and you don't know what you just l
the idea that someone invented Twitter is nonsense it it was it was a bunch of people in a room playing around with ideas and exploring and this thing accidentally fell out
I wouldn't say that Twitter is Jack's Innovation I would say that Twitter was 12 people's Innovation
when d dick took over um he was he's an operations guy and the company was at a point where it needed an operator and I think so I think each person was right for that period of time
when EV took over EV is not a he's not a very egotistical person he doesn't like to hang out with celebrities and be you know know on the cover of magazines and it was a time when everyone wanted to talk to people at Twitter and celebrities and everything and he kept that at Bay because he wasn't interested in it and it allowed the company to grow
when Jack was Jack was running the show he was so busy trying to figure out how to run the company that he wasn't focused on the product and and the users developed the at symbol and the hashtag and the URLs and all these things
when Noah started it Noah was he's like Kramer a really sweet guy he's all over the place and he is um he's coming up with all these wacky ideas and explaining what Twitter was back then even today is almost impossible right and and his his kind of eccentricities were the thing that got it just just far enough that people start to use it
if they didn't have all this chaos would the product be 10 times bigger do you think would it be Facebook I don't think the product would exist because I think that the chaos was what made the product what it is
I think part of it was also that the best way to kind of describe the Twitter story is um Game of Thrones with Nerds um it really is I mean the Iron Throne is the CEO ship of Twitter um and they literally all bludge into each other to death trying to sit in that little electronic chair or whatever it was
someone who is a Visionary and who understands technology and distribution and books
while Jeff has a lot of attributes that are very Steve jobssan if you will he also has a lot that are not I don't think that he has the design sense that jobs had um and uh they probably have the same size egos right and they're and they're both capable of casting a pretty vicious reality Distortion