Hatching Twitter

This book chronicles the early days of Twitter. There were many founder and CEOs that came and went. Most departures were not voluntary. One early employee was Noah Glass. Apparently he got a bit crazy and was fired early on. Then Jack Dorsey became CEO. He would later go on to found Square, a mobile payments company.

Jack was not prepared to be a CEO. It became obvious, and he was moved out to a non-voting board member. He ceased being a Twitter employee and lost all influence initially. He did continue to do interviews, and self proclaimed himself inventor of Twitter.

Evan Williams was the money behind Twitter. He owned the company that initially developed Twitter. He succeeded Jack as the CEO of Twitter. He had some shortcomings, such as not being able to make decisions quickly and hiring his friends for top positions in the company. He was essentially fired when Jack returned to the company.

The book chronicled the earlier days of Twitter, when they had problems keeping the site up. It also covered many attempts at people trying to purchase the company. Stories of original employees, especially those in high positions at the company were discussed. In the end, the assorted CEOs got rich (billionaires) from the company.