Will our Courts have another high visibility case on their hands now that the Winklevoss twins and Facebook case is closed? This article is quite the story, so I will only tease a portion:
“How Twitter’s owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded. Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major cofounder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal.”
There appears to be some great investigative journalism here by Business Insider. Reading this article means you’ll need to set aside a good chunk of time, but once you start reading – you won’t be able to stop.
Some highlights:
– Sideprojects/hackathons (page 1)
“Williams decided Odeo’s future was not in podcasting, and later that year, he told the company’s employees to start coming up with ideas for a new direction Odeo could go. The company started holding official ‘hackathons’ where employees would spend a whole day working on projects. They broke off into groups.”
– The “dark side” of Evan Williams (page 3)
“Lots of Odeo investors and employees used the word ‘calculating’ to describe him. … His Blogger cofounder, Meg Hourihan, is reported to have said, ‘I don’t think he took care of the people who got him to where he was.'”
– Evan Williams on Howard Stern (page 5)
“When we heard this interview, we’d already been working on this story for a while. We’d talked to Odeo investors and Odeo employees who had all seen the creation of Twitter firsthand. What Biz told Howard Stern sounded different from what all those people told us.”
