On his first day as COO at Twitter, Dick Costolo, a former improvisational comedian, sent out his first tweet: “First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow,” he wrote. “Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power.” Dick Costolo’s brief work history Dick Costolo, fresh from selling his start-up for $100 million, was appointed as COO at Twitter by Evan Williams, then CEO at the social media site, according to the book, Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, by New York Times reporter Nick Bilton, to be published next month. Williams was later ousted because Twitter’s board, and…
Dick Costolo Almost Lost His Twitter Job in 2010 [REPORT]
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