Summary of Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter

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Get the Summary of Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company.

Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics, media, and other fields in innumerable ways.

Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind the scenes with a narrative that shows what happened inside Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds. This is a tale of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles as the four founders - Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Noah Glass - went from everyday engineers to wealthy celebrities, featured on magazine covers, Oprah, The Daily Show, and Time's list of the world's most influential people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638158615

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author was a twenty-five-year-old from Nebraska who had moved to California to work for a tech company. He was a quiet guy who enjoyed spending time alone in his office.

#2

From a young age, Ev was a daydreamer. He spent hours alone with his thoughts, and even when he went to school, he preferred to stay in and do work rather than play with the other kids.

#3

After high school, Ev moved to Florida and got a job at an advertising company. He was fired after only a few months, because he was too abrasive for people to like. He then went back to Nebraska and worked for an advertising company there. He was fired for being abrasive again.

#4

Blogger, a service created by Ev Bacca, allowed people to create their own blogs. These blogs became a platform for people to voice their opinions, no matter how controversial.

#5

Blogger had grown to house nearly a million blogs by 2002, with close to ninety million posts. Yet the office was no bigger than a New York City studio apartment. The room was dark and dank, with one clock that had stopped ticking long ago.

#6

Ev saw the growth of Blogger as a way to help people share their thoughts with the world. He wanted to disrupt the publishing world, and he did.

#7

Blogger’s founder, Evan Williams, lived across the street from Noah Glass in Santa Cruz, California. They became friends, and Blogger became one of the most popular