Reddit reviews Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

If you read Hatching Twitter, you'll get some insight into how @jack works.

An investment from the CEO of a company who doesn't even know how to deal with politics on his own business, and is extremely biased about many world issues.

An investment from the CEO of a company whose main goal is to make money for its centralized company's shareholders.

I didn't know how you guys see this as "this is the future". If anything, this investment decision alone could be looked back in the future as the "beginning of the end" if lightning ends up failing. It's full of conflict of interest. All the drama in Bitcoin community came from conflict of interest, and this entire roster of investors (excluding a few VCs) is a terrible disaster of conflict of interests.

Before you downvote me down to hell, I just want to clarify that I'm not criticizing lightning or its viability. I'm talking about the investment decision. Before you mindlessly idolize Jack Dorsey, go read the book about Twitter inc.'s history. The drama around Facebook inc. is child's play compared to what happened at Twitter https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1523250707&sr=8-8&keywords=twitter

I've read Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.

https://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087

That gave a really interesting insight into how Twitter got founded. You might also like Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1501127624/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465954395&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+jobs+walter+isaacson

I know it's not a book specifically about a company, but it goes into the founding of Apple, the hiring of some key and not so key employees and into him operating his other computer company NeXT and Pixar at the same time.

If anybody wants a good read I would check out the book "Hatching Twitter" (http://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087). Tells a lot about the company and all it's problems.

Since reading the book so much more shit has happened and it's not even surprising anymore.

Right now I'm reading Hatching Twitter.

It's always interesting to try to guess what was happening behind the scenes that cause business moves like this to happen.

Really, there are three possibilities that could have happened here that led to someone leaving 8 months after being hired: Johnson got a better offer to work somewhere else, he tried negotiating for an unreasonably higher pay, or, behind the scenes, he was a really bad employee.

I guess there might be a 4th, which is that he was already hugely overpaid, and Ripple realized that the market already knew everything about Ripple, so Johnson was sitting around doing nothing. Personally, I kind of doubt this one, because 8 months is too short of a time frame to really know this.

We will probably never know the truth, unless 20 years down the road, someone writes an investigative piece into the early days of Ripple, like in Hatching Twitter.

Surprised by this one--and super excited. For anyone interested in Twitter's origin story & how Jack got to be CEO (again), Hatching Twitter is a good read.