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Hatching Twitter

A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

by Nick Bilton
Daniel May
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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. 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. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over 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 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.
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.

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  • Release date

    November 5, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781101975510
      • File size: 286328 KB
      • Duration: 09:56:30

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Daniel May steers this audiobook with energy and confidence, narrating as if each turn of events is as surprising to him as it is to the listener. There are plenty of crazy characters to portray as well, including the back-stabbing Twitter founders themselves, IPO-crazed investors, Snoop Dogg, and Mark Zuckerberg. May obviously researched the players, and he does an especially convincing job of voicing cofounder Jack Dorsey. As the book points out, the company's history was written by those with the loudest voices, and the Twitter juggernaut was not the result of a company strategy--it was in spite of it. Fast-paced narration, great storytelling, and a truly bizarre story make this a standout among the recent books about the founders of tech companies. R.W.S. (c) AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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