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March 29, 2011 12:38 am GMT
Today's return of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey to the company he created to once again head up its product efforts raises the question of what will co-founder Evan Williams be doing now. When he handed over the CEO reigns to Dick Costolo last October, the company said he was going to focus more on the product side of things. Dorsey is now the head of product and the two co-founders have a contentious relationship. (Early investor Fred Wilson describes the relationship like that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles: "They made great music together for a while, but then they both kind of got ambitious about things and didn't see eye to eye anymore.")It's an open secret in tech circles that Williams is not spending that much time at Twitter anymore. His absence has been been noted in various news reports, but it's usually stated as rumor or from unattributed sources. Well, it's true and it's official. Today, I asked Twitter about Ev's current role in light of Dorsey's taking over the product lead. A company spokesperson sent me the following statement:
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/iYFmWhHUEdU/
It's Official: Ev Became "Less Involved" At Twitter Months Ago
Today's return of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey to the company he created to once again head up its product efforts raises the question of what will co-founder Evan Williams be doing now. When he handed over the CEO reigns to Dick Costolo last October, the company said he was going to focus more on the product side of things. Dorsey is now the head of product and the two co-founders have a contentious relationship. (Early investor Fred Wilson describes the relationship like that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles: "They made great music together for a while, but then they both kind of got ambitious about things and didn't see eye to eye anymore.")It's an open secret in tech circles that Williams is not spending that much time at Twitter anymore. His absence has been been noted in various news reports, but it's usually stated as rumor or from unattributed sources. Well, it's true and it's official. Today, I asked Twitter about Ev's current role in light of Dorsey's taking over the product lead. A company spokesperson sent me the following statement:Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/iYFmWhHUEdU/
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