As Evan Williams talked with the interviewer about building a 21st-century business, keeping to Twitter’s foundational principle (the Google-like “be a force for good”) and fostering corporate experimentation, members of his audience started groaning — and leaving, one by one. “They wanted Ev Williams; they got Ev Williams,” a Twitter staff member said later.
Why Twitter’s CEO Demoted Himself
Claire Cain Miller | The New York Times | October 31, 2010 | 3,418 words
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