Nick Bilton's new book, "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," unmasks Jack Dorsey.
The book unravels the story of how the Twitter Chairman, Jack Dorsey betrayed his friend, co founder of Twitter, Noah Glass and over threw him from the company.
Dorsey and Glass came together to form the micro blogging site, Twitter, along with Even Williams, who was a former investor in the podcast firm, Odeo . Glass was the one who came up with the name Twitter for the site, but Dorsey made himself the face of the company and kept Glass away from the limelight.
In its initial days when Twitter was struggling to emerge as one of the biggest social networking sites across the world, conflicts started arising between the other two cofounders, Williams and Glass. Dorsey took advantage and used the fact to serve his own selfish motives. He compelled Williams to get Glass out of the company or threatened to quit the firm. That very night Glass met Dorsey and disclosed his fears of getting over thrown from the company and Dorsey acted dumbfounded blaming Williams for his acts. This is the story in the book.
Nick Bilton, the author says that Dorsey was not ready to share his fame and feared the rising position of Glass in the company. "Perhaps it was because he sensed vulnerability or perhaps it was because Glass was the only person who could rightly insist that the status updater was not Dorsey's idea alone," reveals a recent post on Mashable.
Finally in 2006 after Glass had left the company, Dorsey took over as the CEO of Twitter. Glass does not belong to Twitter anymore yet he closely monitors every single move of the micro blogging site created 'with massive labor of love' on his end, reports Business Insider. On the day Twitter unveiled its IPO, Glass tweeted, "I wish the twitter team the best of luck and trust that they will be successful in continuing to develop this important communication tool."
Over time the board members became unhappy with Dorsey as the CEO as he was more interested in pursuing fashion designing courses and yoga sessions rather than addressing the concerns of the company. In fact, Dorsey was given an ultimatum either to be the CEO of Twitter or a dress maker by Williams at one point of time. Dorsey was reportedly in talks with Mark Zuckerberg to get into Facebook after leaving Twitter but somehow it didn't come to fruit, according to a recent post on allthingsd.
Dorsey presently heads the mobile payment company, Square. He re-joined the company after some time. The book deals with the extremely power mad, self interested character of Dorsey who no doubt had conceptualized Twitter. The venture would not have seen the light of day without the efforts from all who worked to make Twitter a grand success and that includes Glass as well, says the writer.