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Dick Costolo Scott Beaudoin Brian Ly ITMG330
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Dick Costolo. Scott Beaudoin Brian Ly ITMG330. Background of Twitter. The Founding of Twitter: a Twist Noah Glass founds Odeo Evan Williams invests in Odeo Moves to office, and Williams becomes CEO. Itunes launches podcast platform Noah Glass and Jack Dorsey come up with Twitter. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dick Costolo
Scott BeaudoinBrian LyITMG330
Background of TwitterThe Founding of Twitter: a Twist• Noah Glass founds Odeo• Evan Williams invests in Odeo• Moves to office, and Williams becomes CEO.• Itunes launches podcast platform • Noah Glass and Jack Dorsey come up with Twitter.• While Evan Williams is CEO, he fires Noah Glass
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Dick Costolo• Dick Costolo was born on September 10, 1963
• Graduated from University of Michigan with Bachelors in Computer and Communication Sciences
• Work Historyo Andersen Consultingo Burning Door Networked Mediao SpyOnIto FeedBurnero joined Googleo joined Twittero became CEO in 2010
Board of Directors Jack Dorsey• Director since 2007• CEO of Twitter in 2007-08• Co-found Square Inc.• CEO & Director of Square,
Inc. • Independent Director for the
Walt Disney Company
Evan Williams• Director since 2007• Advisor of Typekit, Inc.• Current CEO of Medium• CEO of Pyra Labs
Evan Williams says, “that all successful
businesspeople make enemies along the
way."
Interesting Facts• Improv Comedy
• Caught spamming at Feedburner
• Almost didn’t join Twitter
• Cocky attitude - First Tweet
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Twitter Events Vine
• January 2013• Video-Sharing app• 6 second limit• 40 million registered users
Twitter becomes more Visual
• October 2013• Photos and videos can be
previewed in a tweet.• Increase retweets by 150%
Sources• https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=823321• https://about.twitter.com/milestones• http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR• http://www.businessinsider.com/how-twitter-was-founded-2011-4?page=5• http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia
/2010/10/04/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-twitters-new-ceo/#!ADkpu• http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof
/2013/09/09/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-tells-how-to-lead-with-two-simple-rules/• http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId
=4549439&privcapId=23553202&previousCapId=35962803&previousTitle=Twitter,%20Inc.• http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=83968070&tic
ker=TWTR
