last November Jack Dorsey announced that he would step down as CEO of Twitter, a resignation that had effect Immediately. “I’m not sure anyone knows, but I quit Twitter”, Dorsey posted on Twitter, along with the image of the email he shared with his team when notifying his resignation as CEO of Twitter. Now, the founder of the social network has taken another step in the process of leaving him, announcing that he is resigning from his position on the company’s board of directors. In this way, Twitter loses the last of (along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone) who still remained in the company.
An announced departure
After assuming his role as CEO of Twitter for 16 years, last November Dorsey explained «it’s finally time to go. Why? Much is said about the importance of a company being led by the founder. Lately I think that is a limitation and a factor for failure. I have worked hard to make sure this company can walk away from its foundation and its founders. There are three reasons why I think now is the right time.”Dorsey detailed.
not sure anyone has heard but,
I resigned from Twitter
—jack⚡️ (@jack)
One of the reasons Dorsey decided to step down is that Parag Agrawal, the social network’s former CTO, was poised to take over as Twitter’s CEO. «He has been my option for some time, because he knows and understands in depth what this company is and needs. Parag has been behind every critical decision that has helped turn the company around.«.
Agrawal, 37, had been chief technology officer since 2017, and has been with Twitter for more than a decade. He had previously been in charge of strategy involving artificial intelligence and machine learning, and has led projects to make tweets on users’ timelines more relevant to them.
In fact, Dorsey assured in his statement that Agrawal was chosen to lead the company because “He has a deep understanding of the company and its needs.”
Another of the reasons he gave for this decision, after which Dorsey continued until yesterday as a member of the board, is that the current president and chief operating officer of Salesforce, Bret Taylor would succeed him as head of Twitter’s board of directors. “Having Bret in that leadership role gives me a lot of confidence in the strength of the board moving forward.”
Finally, the third of the reasons referred to to the example that this change offers to the Twitter team, putting Parag Agrawal as a success story of an employee who has developed his full potential in the company. Of course, not only Dorsey has participated in it, however, he has been one of the most recognized founders since he was the one who came up with an idea to redirect the company.
Now, with the lead still to be determined, Dorsey has decided to take a definite step aside.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and one of the most recognizable faces on Twitter
Jack Dorsey started in the field of programming as a teenager: at the age of 17, he infiltrated the systems of Dispatch Management Services, a New York-based bicycle courier company, pointing out its lack of security, and of course, the company he hired him right away. In 1999 Dorsey moved to Oakland where he and a team founded one focused on taxi, courier and emergency services via the Internet.
A year later, Dorsey begins to devise an internet service in which posts would appear in real time and “as they happen”.
begins in 2004 in the apartment of Noah Glassan American programmer who devised a project called Odeo: its basic idea was the possibility of leaving a recorded message in MP3 format when calling by phone, which was hosted in the Cloud. This project would later be joined by the creator of Blogger.com, Evan Williams. Shortly after, Odeo became a podcasting platform with 14 employees, including the CEO, Biz Stone – former colleague of Williams at Google-
But later Apple launched iTunes and Odeo lost its appeal, and Dorsey came up with the idea of using SMS to create conversations between small groups of people. And «Twttr» was born in 2006 as an internal Odeo service.
The first tweet in the history of the platform was written by Jack Dorsey on March 21 of that same year and said “Just setting up my twttr” (just adjusting my Twttr). In 2007 is when Twitter officially becomes an independent company and Jack Dorsey becomes CEO.
And if you thought that since then Dorsey held this position, you are wrong: the quarrels did not wait and Williams suggested the expulsion of Jack Dorsey, which became effective shortly after. However, due to its great growth, the platform did not stop collapsing, and after becoming a real chaos, Twitter’s board decided to fire Evan Williams and bring back Jack Dorsey as CEOwhile Biz Stone left the company in June 2011.
After years of uncertain growth, stock price declines, and a consistent inability to consistently and successfully monetize the company, Twitter continues to fight to maintain its status as a benchmark social network, integrating new features that manage to keep veteran users and attract new ones, including changes in its timeline, broadcasts of , and now , and we will have to wait to find out what the future of one of the most important of the internet era is, what its evolution will be and if Dorsey will come back or
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