THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORY Ev told
Jack he had to 'chill out' with the deluge of media he
was doing. 'It's bad for the company,' Ev said. 'It's
sending the wrong message.' Biz sat between them,
watching like a spectator at a tennis match. 'But I
invented Twitter,' Jack said. 'No, you didn't invent
Twitter,' Ev replied. 'I didn't invent Twitter either.
Neither did Biz. People don't invent things on the
Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already
exsists.' Since 2006, Twitter has grown from the
accidental side project of a failing internet start-up,
to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11.5bn
business. But the full story of Twitter's hatching has
never been told before. In his revelatory new book, New
York Times journalist Nick Bilton takes readers behind
the scenes of Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds,
and inside the heads of the four hackers who created it:
ambitious millionaire Evan Williams; tattooed mastermind
Jack Dorsey; joker and diplomat Biz Stone; and Noah
Glass, the shy but energetic geek who invested his whole
life in Twitter, only to be kicked out and expunged from
the company's official history.Combing unprecedented
access with exhaustible investigative reporting, and
drawing on hundreds of sources, documents and internal
e-mails, HATCHING TWITTER is a blistering drama of
betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles. A
business story like no other, it will shock, expose and
inspire.
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