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Ev is now CEO; Jack is now running Square; Jack pretends he's still part of the company and takes over the media, to the irritation of the actual Twitter executives; Ev hires his friend Dick as COO; the board decides Dick would be a better CEO (at least until Jack comes back)

Bilton, N. (2013). #EV. In Bilton, N. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal. Portfolio Hardcover, pp. 159-272

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[...] He held his weekly meetings with Campbell, receiving his boisterous pep talk. "You're doing a fucking great job!" Campbell would bellow. At board meetings Campbell wuld appear to listen to Ev's presentations on the state of the company. After Ev's sermons were done, the coach would clap loudly and hug his protégé, proclaiming again to everyone in the room that Ev was "doing a fucking great job!" and asking them to clap (none of this was a usual occurrence in a corporate board meeting). Then, after Ev left the room, proud that his mentor thought he was doing such a great job, Campbell would shout at the group: "You gotta get rid of this fucking guy! He doesn't know what the fuck he's doing!"

(Bill Campbell is his executive coach; he would occasionally randomly show up to board meetings, which was not a normal thing for a CEO coach to do)

also man the level of cuckage here is brutal ... I get secondhand shivers just thinking about it

—p.245 by Nick Bilton 7 years, 6 months ago

[...] He held his weekly meetings with Campbell, receiving his boisterous pep talk. "You're doing a fucking great job!" Campbell would bellow. At board meetings Campbell wuld appear to listen to Ev's presentations on the state of the company. After Ev's sermons were done, the coach would clap loudly and hug his protégé, proclaiming again to everyone in the room that Ev was "doing a fucking great job!" and asking them to clap (none of this was a usual occurrence in a corporate board meeting). Then, after Ev left the room, proud that his mentor thought he was doing such a great job, Campbell would shout at the group: "You gotta get rid of this fucking guy! He doesn't know what the fuck he's doing!"

(Bill Campbell is his executive coach; he would occasionally randomly show up to board meetings, which was not a normal thing for a CEO coach to do)

also man the level of cuckage here is brutal ... I get secondhand shivers just thinking about it

—p.245 by Nick Bilton 7 years, 6 months ago
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Kris, Ev's assistant, had been asked to go through Dick's tweets, highlighting any that could be perceived as controversial. As she scrolled through his thousands of 140-character updates, she stopped midscreen and rolled her eyes as she called people over to look at the message he had jokingly sent a year earlier: "First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power."

—p.265 by Nick Bilton 7 years, 6 months ago

Kris, Ev's assistant, had been asked to go through Dick's tweets, highlighting any that could be perceived as controversial. As she scrolled through his thousands of 140-character updates, she stopped midscreen and rolled her eyes as she called people over to look at the message he had jokingly sent a year earlier: "First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power."

—p.265 by Nick Bilton 7 years, 6 months ago