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Hatching Twitter

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

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Hatching Twitter

By: Nick Bilton
Narrated by: Daniel May
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Since 2006, Twitter has grown from 100 obsessive users to more than 500 million today - over 32 million of those in the UK alone. But how did such a radical transformation happen in just five years, and what does it mean for business, politics and the internet?

With unprecedented access to some of the major players in this unique drama, acclaimed New York Times business and technology columnist Nick Bilton chronicles the key figures who helped build the company, and who ultimately struggled to manage the influence and power they had been handed.

A business story like no other, it will shock, inspire and expose. Or, in 140 characters, 'The Twitter Story: How a company built on betrayal & battles for power became a multibillion dollar business & accidentally changed the world.

©2013 Nick Bilton (P)2013 Penguin Group USA Engineering
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It’s interesting to see and hear how friends come and go.
It’s also interesting to see how businesses are valued despite not making a profit.
The tech age is where it all happens.
It’s an interesting journey into wealth, risk and venture capitalists.

Captivating

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although I do recommend and I can't say that I regret purchasing this audio, I found it to negative towards Jack and bias towards the other founders.

bias recollection.

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Ok, so, I like stories about startups and this book got my attention based on reviews. While the background story is engaging there are a lot of extra fluff which has nothing to do with Twitter's formation like whom Jack Dorsey had a crush on and wanted to date or if people in early days used to come up with spirits at tea parties. There is a lot of unnecessary explicit language like the use if F word.. in one section, the author uses the F word 18 times continuously to just describe one of the tweet.. WHY? can't you just say someone who was upset wrote a tweet with say 18 times F word. Same thing could be conveyed this way. I usually listen to audio books in my car with speakers on at times with my kids in the car. This is unacceptable use of profanity for a tech startup book. I do understand that many startups had hippy culture but those things has nothing to do with the company itself. We are more interested in how it all began, their highs and lows, finances, scaling and how they survived etc etc.

This is one of the few other books where I got much swearing and profanity. Not sure if Audible does any proof reading\listening of the content before it publishes. Many authors think that having a lot of swearing makes their book sounds cool. It's not. Many of us listen to these books for educational purposes and many times in our car while we have our families travelling with us. Please be mindful of this in future books. I would like a response from the author on this.

Dramatic, lots of unnecessary fluff and swearing

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