Discussion

• @kunalb11 Kunal Shah on x

  While we all celebrate how Indians are become global tech CEOs and bask in this reflected glory, we as Indians need to ask what is making our best leave the country and what will reverse this trend in years to come. A country with its best talent leaving will not win big. https:/…

• @newley Newley Purnell on x

  Relatively unknown outside Twitter, where he's worked as an engineer for more than a decade, Agrwal will need to address some lawmakers' calls to better police what company deems hate speech and misinformation along with others' allegations that Twitter improperly censors users.

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  @jack ... Here's a good, detailed profile of Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal (@paraga), including what projects he's led and how his former Stanford CS adviser kept bugging him to finish his PhD thesis after he went to Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/... by @MikeIsaac @kateconge…

• @madhavchanchani Madhav on x

  Some tech observers said that Mr.Agrawal's appointment made sense because he was a kind of “spiritual successor” to Mr. Dorsey: Both are quiet, polite, deeply technical and enthused about an internet where power and control are given back to users https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @devashishmitra_ Devashish Mitra on x

  CEOs of Microsoft, Google, IBM and now Twitter are all Indians (Indian Americans). Is it the high quality of the top tier of India's higher education system that explains it? Or just a pure selection effect: the US attracts the cream of tech graduates? https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @notparagagrawal Not Parag Agrawal on x

  Thanks for nothing fam https://twitter.com/...

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on x

  Includes a random comment from... me. As I noted earlier, I think @paraga is an excellent, thoughtful choice for Twitter and will continue moving Twitter in a good direction. https://twitter.com/...

• @marshallk Marshall Kirkpatrick on x

  Twitter's CTO becoming CEO seems promising for its API, one of the most important, promising, and useful data sources in the world. I sure hope so.

• @chandrarsrikant Chandra R. Srikanth on x

  If you look at the current crop of CEOs of Big Tech, they left India over 10 or 20 years ago. I'd like to believe that this trend has come down in the last few years, with many preferring to start up than move out. With the number of engineers we produce, we can do both I think. …

• Vox Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Twitter is again losing Jack Dorsey, its multitasking, wizard-bearded visionary

• @jack Jack⚡️ on x

  not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter https://twitter.com/...

• @paraga Parag Agrawal on x

  Deep gratitude for @jack and our entire team, and so much excitement for the future. Here's the note I sent to the company. Thank you all for your trust and support 💙 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @patrickc Patrick Collison on x

  Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (Congrats, @paraga!)

• @jack Jack⚡️ on x

  I love twitter

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @patrickc ... USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!

• @sundarpichai Sundar Pichai on x

  Wishing you the very best ahead @jack, and congrats @paraga and @btaylor - excited for Twitter's future!

• @kfile Andrew Kaczynski on x

  This tweet which is currently going viral among the right from Twitter's new CEO is him quoting a Daily Show segment that aired that night about stereotypes. It's a joke about absurd stereotypes, not a factual statement. https://www.cc.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Twitter's new CEO @paraga is a close friend of Jack Dorsey's and big on crypto/web3. Good interview here he did with @KevKubernetes earlier this year https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  The Twitter exec who has been leading its decentralized crypto project @bluesky is now CEO https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  The funniest and most Twitter-like thing about it replacing its CEO today is that today is a company holiday

• @sam_l_shead Sam Shead on x

  Dorsey is also CEO of digital payment startup Square, which is under less regulatory scrutiny than Twitter

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  For as aloof and as spacey as Jack Dorsey is, he was always much better at explaining decisions his company made, particularly tricky ones, than Mark Zuckerberg.

• @techemails @techemails on x

  Jack Dorsey: My three immediate priorities as interim CEO June 22, 2015 https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Jack is doing some serious revisionist history in this resignation memo, talking about a company being founder-led as “severely limiting and a single point of failure.” He just fought off an activist investor who wanted him to step down and is the CEO/founder of Square.

• @gautam_adani Gautam Adani on x

  Another great moment for India's depth of talent and USA's meritocracy system. Congrats @paraga on your unanimous selection as CEO. You will do @Twitter & @jack proud. After Microsoft, Google, IBM, Adobe, Flex, VMware and more, yet another Indian rises to lead the digital world. …

• @ritholtz Barry Ritholtz on x

  Just be glad that when you quit your job, your company stock price does not rise 10%+ https://twitter.com/...

• @stejormur @stejormur on x

  Before Twitter/After Twitter https://twitter.com/...

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Jack had been spending less than 10% of his time at Twitter, from what I've heard. So him leaving won't be a massive operational change. Still: Whoa. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @parkermolloy Parker Molloy on x

  Just going to repost this February 2020 article for no reason: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @thedailyshow @thedailyshow on x

  Don't worry - like everyone else who quits Twitter he'll be back in three weeks https://twitter.com/...

• @pierce David Pierce on x

  Jack can say whatever he wants about why he's leaving Twitter, but all I hear is “bitcoin bitcoin bitcoin bitcoin” https://www.protocol.com/...

• @chandrarsrikant Chandra R. Srikanth on x

  Twitter- Parag Agarwal Google - Sundar Pichai Microsoft - Satya Nadella IBM - Arvind Krishna Adobe- Shantanu Narayen VMWare - Raghu Raghuram So many CEOs of Indian origin in global tech! https://twitter.com/...

• @panzer @panzer on x

  So jack definitely left to go build in web3 right? Twitter is an observer but square could be a real participant.

• @maxkennerly Max Kennerly on x

  LOL. Zuckerberg is sincerely committed to making Facebook a society-unraveling brain-poisoning machine, whereas Dorsey's default position has been—sometimes for better, often for worse—benign neglect. I suspect his departure improves the platform; there's cleanup work to do. http…

• @malemayehou @malemayehou on x

  New era at @Twitter @jack has stepped down as CEO and @paraga our former CTO, will lead us in this next chapter. @jack is a visionary who has set the foundation for @parag to keep executing and we are thankful for his many contributions.

• @tomgara Tom Gara on x

  Someone digging up a 10-year old tweet of yours for everyone to freak out over is actually the traditional welcoming ritual for a new Twitter CEO, it's like one of those Japanese tea ceremonies, except for posting.

• @suhelseth Suhel Seth on x

  Good evening @tim_cook : I hope you saw @jack 's message to the world. Be global; but be led by an Indian. Waiting for the apple to fall closer to the tree. Stay safe. And start drafting your resignation letter.

• @dril Wint on x

  WHo else thinks that, without JACK at the helm, this site is going to start Sucking FUCKING DICK!!!

• @smalter Walter Chen on x

  you either die as a founder-run company or live long enough to see your company run by an indian dude

• @epro Emil Protalinski on x

  $TWTR closed down 2.78% today at $45.76, despite opening at $51.88, after @paraga replaced @jack as CEO. Investors are not impressed. https://twitter.com/...

• @varunkrish Varun Krishnan on x

  India produces some great TEAS right? Not Chai but Tech Executives As a Service #OkBye

• @nisharotech Nishant Arora on x

  Jack retires from Twitter, on Twitter... handing over the baton to CTO Parag Agrawal.. Possibly to focus more on Square and Crypto Parag writes another Indian global CEO success story from Silicon Valley Now #Facebook is left to be taken over #jackdorsey #paragagrawal #twitter

• @neerajka Neeraj K. Agrawal on x

  calling my mom to see if im related to this guy

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Dorsey pushes back hard against the cult of “founder-led” in his resignation letter. Suggests it's often about ego. Hmmmm... wonder what that means for another founder-led company... the payments one that the founder actually controls.

• @alexisohanian @alexisohanian on x

  Thanks, but I'm all in on @sevensevensix — hard to imagine Twitter w/o @Jack at the helm https://twitter.com/...

• @milessuter Miles Suter on x

  Day Zero, Bitcoin Era.

• @zei_squirrel @zei_squirrel on x

  jack dorsey moment https://twitter.com/...

• @cz_binance @cz_binance on x

  @jack Well done @jack. Welcome to full time crypto? 😃

• @btaylor Bret Taylor on x

  Congratulations to @paraga on being named $TWTR's CEO, and thank you to @jack for your leadership over the past six years. I'm honored to be the next Chair of @Twitter's board. Today is an exciting day for Twitter and all of our stakeholders.

• @byyourlogic @byyourlogic on x

  goodbye Jack...I will miss when people would scream at him that he's supposed to make Twitter even more moderated and he'd go “I'm actually on a diarrhea retreat in Nepal. be blessed. :)” no one will admit it but that's cool. he's cool

• @jaboukie @jaboukie on x

  Some personal news... I'm happy to announce my new position as Chief Operating Officer at Twitter. Can we get some COOs in the chat? 🐦 https://twitter.com/...

• @balajis Balaji Srinivasan on x

  What a run. Congrats @jack, and congrats @paraga! https://twitter.com/...

• @ilanmuskat Ilan Muskat on x

  Demonstrating Twitter's commitment to accessibility, its founder and outgoing CEO resigns with a wall of text in a bitmap without annotation https://twitter.com/...

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  “I like Jack, but I didn't like Jack as CEO. I think Jack didn't know who he was. He was trying to be a designer. He was trying to be famous. He was trying to be fashionable and he wasn't reflective. He puts on these airs of being a thinker, but that's not who he is.” @sacca

• @pt Parker on x

  Lots of talk about product (it will be fine), but not enough talk about where @jack's beard goes from here now that he's unyoked from these corporate responsibilities.

• @stshank Stephen Shankland on x

  Is this use of “against” a uniquely tech/Silicon Valley thing? I don't hear it elsewhere. (Oh, also, @jack resigned as Twitter CEO.) “Twitter is now executing against an ambitious multi-year plan to dramatically increase the company's reach and value...” https://www.cnet.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  We've had a generation of tech leaders decide their jobs were no longer fun under regulatory scrutiny and leave; BillG (the OG), Larry, Sergey, Bezos, Travis and now Jack. Who do you think the next generation will be to face those challenges? I'm confident Stripe is on the list.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  I expect Stripe to be so enormously dominant and critical infrastructure that competitors & regulators will start to complain once they reach their full potential. Which companies do you also expect to become both critical & dominant that regulators will come knocking?

• @sahilriz Sahil Rizwan on x

  Lol you'd think at least the CEO of this hellsite would know the importance of scrubbing your account before his appointment was made public. https://twitter.com/...

• @sidin Sidin Whataycute on x

  This is nothing. Almost 99% of all companies in INDIA are run by Indian CEOs. 99%. It's amazing. Jai Hind. https://twitter.com/...

• @mmasnick Mike Masnick on x

  I think many, many people underestimate the importance of @jack's vision for Twitter, so I think it's unfortunate that he's leaving, but handing controls over to @paraga gives me confidence that Twitter will continue along the right path... It's a good choice. https://twitter.com…

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  “Dorsey, beaten down by years of ‘Hey @jack’ tweets asking for an edit button, stepped down on Monday...”

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  It's just wild that Twitter didn't wipe or at lest spotcheck its new CEO's past tweets considering how often old (and usually contextless) tweets get resurfaced on here to derail someone recently thrust into a position of power or fame.

• @mattocko Matt Ocko on x

  So, uh, does this mean more or fewer Nazis from the massive baseline of Twitter hate? 🙄 (The guy who cheerfully presided over years of ethics-free, predatory tech dev for disinfo & hate amplification at FB — as board Chair — is not a great sign... ) https://twitter.com/...

• @mathewi Mathew Ingram on x

  It seems kind of fitting that Jack's departure tweet starts with what amounts to a subtweet of Mark Zuckerberg

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  ah yes, the time honored tradition of looking up a new CEO's old tweets https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  Of today's many surprises, none has flattened me more than the realization that Biz Stone outlasted Jack Dorsey at Twitter.

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  Amazing trend. And yet our archaic immigration system -built for a tech economy 20 years ago- is actively keeping out a ton more talent. https://twitter.com/...

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  Hard not to see this as bad news. I don't think it's been fully appreciated that on key SV issues - including decentralization, transparency and free speech - @Jack has been far better than most, and way more responsive to critiques. We'll see what happens but it seems not great:…

• @kellymakena Makena Kelly on x

  any hill people have thoughts on how founders leaving big tech companies may influence congressional scrutiny in light of jack's departure? part of me feels that founders leaving (jack/bezos) may make tech reg discussions more fruitful? idk

• @kellymakena Makena Kelly on x

  like, who cares if you're yelling at andy jassy in a hearing? it doesn't carry the same weight as bezos. so i feel like this shift in leadership could either make tech regs less of a priority or make it easier to actually have constructive convos..... just some initial thoughts!

• @matt_levine Matt Levine on x

  what are the odds that the next CEO of twitter currently has a twitter account, like zero right?

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  Polite thumbs up from Elliott Management, which pushed to get @jack out of Twitter: “our collaboration with Jack and the company for the past two years has been productive and effective.” https://twitter.com/...

• @krangtnelson @krangtnelson on x

  in over a decade at twitter jack posted exactly zero (0) fire tweets. everything was just like “excited to release our newest API developer patch” or a foursquare link to the san francisco airport delta lounge. he was knight who could not lift the sword that he himself had forged

• @panzer @panzer on x

  Jack was one of the prime members of the ‘founder led’ era — many new entrants may not remember that this was a revolution that made many vcs and provided the core thesis for billions of dollars of spend and follow on funding. The founder as font of True North.

• @seldo Laurie Voss on x

  I like the way his screenshot is unreadable on mobile, just one last “I don't understand how people use this” for the road. https://twitter.com/...

• @kateconger O...K on x

  I think there's an interesting thread connecting @jack's growing interest in crypto and decentralizing social media, and his announcement that he doesn't want Twitter to be founder-led.

• @panzer @panzer on x

  To me, and likely to all silicon valley historians, the rejection of founder-led as holy writ is the standout line in this message. We'll look back on its inclusion here many times I think. https://twitter.com/...

• @44 @44 on x

  When Dick stepped down we had a super drawn out and exhausting CEO search that in part led me to go somewhere else for a while. Appreciate how today was much more decisive and clear. The comfort that comes from knowing a direction is important. Thank you @jack and everyone. #fly

• @laurengoode Lauren Goode on x

  Spotting another trend here, too... https://twitter.com/...

• @kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x

  New Twitter CEO is the current CTO @paraga Parag was running Twitter's decentralized social network project Blue Sky before they found an outside leader. Very technical. https://www.prnewswire.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  (Elliott almost always gets what Elliott wants) $TWTR

• @marklittlenews Mark Little on x

  Really thoughtful stuff here from Jack Dorsey's successor, particularly on abuse of the platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @shreyaghoshal Shreya Ghoshal on x

  Congrats @paraga So proud of you!! Big day for us, celebrating this news♥️♥️ ♥️ https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  I initially doubted the stories about Jack stepping down because they cited “people familiar with his thinking.” I was like, who the hell is familiar with Jack's thinking?

• @sherman4949 Alex Sherman on x

  Twitter now lower for the day. Come back @jack!!

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  the only two options if you're a tech ceo https://twitter.com/...

• @pt Parker on x

  Gab, Parler, etc. Folks have tried. The problem with them is they're full of the kind of people who feel aggrieved by businesses that kick out customers for threatening other customers with violence. You can't be mass-market and also what American Cons label as free speech. https…

• @llsethj Seth Weintraub on x

  does the stock price often skyrocket when a founder leaves? https://twitter.com/...

• @sriramk Sriram Krishnan on x

  The family WhatsApp groups will be on 🔥 today https://twitter.com/...

• @pranavdixit @pranavdixit on x

  For most of this year, Twitter and the Indian government have been involved in a high-profile and public tug-of-war over free expression and censorship on the platform. It'll be interesting to see how these issues play out now that Twitter has an Indian American as its new CEO.

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  Congrats to @jack on an amazing run! And congrats to @paraga on becoming ceo of this wild platform! Please dutifully check all of our timelines for our feature requests from over the years.

• @sirsteven @sirsteven on x

  “Agrawal, who's served as CTO since 2017, has been with Twitter for more than a decade. He had been in charge of strategy involving artificial intelligence and machine learning.” ...so he's to blame for all those broken Topics? 🤣 https://twitter.com/...

• @micsolana Mike Solana on x

  people tend to conflate jack dorsey with twitter censorship, but my sense is he's actually done what he could these past few years to keep the platform relatively open. things will be worse without him, not better. godspeed, bird king.

• @sherman4949 Alex Sherman on x

  For those that want an edit button on Twitter, elevating the CTO for the last 10 years to CEO probably isn't a bullish sign.

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  wonder if the new twitter CEO is gonna regret tweeting out his work email address https://twitter.com/...

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  Only one founder CEO left among big platforms https://twitter.com/...

• @mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x

  This is it. The last remaining test to see if the #FailWhale is gone forever. If this news doesn't bring down Twitter, I think we're in the clear. 🐳https://www.techmeme.com/ ...

• @techledes Connie Guglielmo on x

  In 280 characters or less, how would you want people to summarize your tenure as CEO @jack? https://twitter.com/...

• @nedsegal Ned Segal on x

  Excited for @paraga and grateful for @jack. So much more for us to do and thrilled Parag will lead us @twitter! https://twitter.com/...

• @felixsalmon Felix Salmon on x

  Even in his departure email, @jack does his best to erase @ev and @biz. NB his use of founder's as opposed to founders' https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @strngwys Roberto Baldwin on x

  🔥 “And there aren't many founders that choose their company over their own ego.” Shots fired! https://twitter.com/...

• @markmilian Mark Milian on x

  The entry in @jack's diary that day read: “Got up, went to Twickenham. Rehearsed until lunch time - left Twitter - went home.”

• @ishanagarwal24 Ishan Agarwal on x

  Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal has replaced Jack Dorsey as CEO at the company! #twitter #jack https://twitter.com/...

• @joshelman Josh Elman on x

  The best/first/only clean handoff in Twitter's history. Congrats to @paraga and I look forward to the evolution of Twitter under your leadership. And thankful to everyone who has made Twitter, Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• @strngwys Roberto Baldwin on x

  You think maybe @jack just had a really awesome piece of pumpkin pie over the weekend and he'll spend the rest of his life chasing that feeling?

• @johnbiggs John Biggs on x

  Now do Facebook!

• @janewakefield Jane Wakefield on x

  Goodbye Jack Dorsey. My lasting memory is of him in a hoodie at TED trying to persuade the audience that Twitter was trying to change. Not sure much has changed but perhaps now it will

• @b_fung Brian Fung on x

  In an internal memo, @jack says this was “my decision” and he owns it. Also takes a jab at what he describes as founder-leader ideology. https://twitter.com/...

• @kt_so_it_goes @kt_so_it_goes on x

  “everyone hates my ass” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO with immediate effect. @paraga takes over as Twitter CEO, and Dorsey will stay around until May to assist with the transition. Dorsey is also leaving the board, so he's totally severing ties with the company he helped create …

• @charlesarthur Charles Arthur on x

  Dorsey stepping down means another iconic tech company no longer has a founder CEO. (It was that way for a while when Dick Costolo was in charge. Not a great time, in retrospect.) Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Twitter.. Founder CEOs are in short supply. Zuck apart, ofc.

• @jamesliamcook James Cook on x

  It'll be interesting if this eventually kickstarts a move away from the importance placed on founder-led startups. Not going to happen overnight, but is this going to cause ripples for Facebook and co? https://twitter.com/...

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  The new Twitter chief executive @paraga doesn't tweet very much which suggests he has a very good understanding of his site.

• @pinboard @pinboard on x

  Square vice-CEO in break room today: “So, what's the scuttlebutt? How's everyone doing? Is there an all-hands? Anybody hear anything? I brought donuts!”

• @sonalibasak Sonali Basak on x

  From @jack on stepping down as Twitter's CEO: “I've decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders. My trust in Parag as Twitter's CEO is deep. His work over the past 10 years has been transformational.” https://www.prnewswire.com/...

• @iansherr Ian Sherr on x

  Obligatory tweet about Twitter https://twitter.com/...

• @stevekovach Steve Kovach on x

  This letter doesn't say why he's resigning. Just that he thinks the pieces are in place for things to be fine without him. https://twitter.com/...

• @mims @mims on x

  considering how well Microsoft and Alphabet and Apple have done under non-founder CEOs who were none the less company insiders who “got” the business but had own ideas about how to reshape it, seems like a good move for Twitter https://twitter.com/...

• @jamestitcomb James Titcomb on x

  Day 1 as new Twitter CEO: Announce tweet editing Day 2 as new Twitter CEO: Resign in glory after shares immediately double in value

• @sherman4949 Alex Sherman on x

  Dorsey doesn't mention that he's also CEO of Square, a company with a $97 billion market cap, in his reasons for stepping down as Twitter CEO. https://twitter.com/...

• @phil_lewis_ Philip Lewis on x

  Jack hopped in a few Twitter Spaces and said I'm outta here https://twitter.com/...

• @can @can on x

  will twitter sell or find a PE-like CEO?

• @rachelking Rachel King on x

  And he opted for Gmail over the Notes app. https://twitter.com/...

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  — Dorsey's first stint as chief executive ended in 2008 after being pushed out by Twitter's board. He returned to the role in 2015 when former CEO Dick Costolo left the company. — The platform said it had 211 million daily active users last quarter. https://twitter.com/...

• @sherman4949 Alex Sherman on x

  Jack Dorsey has 5.9 million Twitter followers. New CEO Parag Agrawal (@paraga) has 24,000. Probably not for long.

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Notable that Twitter's head of comms left last week.

• @sam_l_shead Sam Shead on x

  @jack: “I've decided to leave because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders. My trust in Parag as Twitter's CEO is deep. His work over the past 10 years has been transformational. I'm deeply grateful for his skill, heart, and soul. It's his time to lead.”

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  first reported by @CNBC A brief history of @Jack 2006: co-founds Twitter 2008: board fires @jack as CEO 2008-2015: picks up a bunch of hobbies 2015: comes back as CEO 2015-2021: picks up more hobbies, grows the beard, throws Trump off site

• @ldrogen Leigh Drogen on x

  Another Twitter CEO who basically doesn't use Twitter SMH

• @nic__carter Nic Cubeter on x

  Jack's departure will make it clear that he was the last bulwark against much more aggressive censorship at Twitter. Jack deserves the break, but I don't believe it will be positive for the platform.

• @trungtphan @trungtphan on x

  Jack Dorsey once had dinner with Zuck, who tried feeding him a raw goat he had killed with a stun gun. With Dorsey stepping down from Twitter, looks like the intimidation tactic worked: https://twitter.com/...

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  Long halt for $TWTR

• @pinboard @pinboard on x

  Jack Dorsey to quit part-time job!

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Twitter stock up 37% since @jack took over as interim CEO. Not bad. https://twitter.com/...

• @lanceulanoff Lance Ulanoff on x

  I remember the last time @jack stepped down. It didn't go all that well. It's still hard to imagine a better CEO for Twitter than Jack Dorsey. That said, let's throw out some names for leadership. I'll start: ⁦@alexisohanian⁩ https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  If it's @kayvz I may actually buy some shares. https://twitter.com/...

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  Source says employees have not been notified of anything yet, nor have they received any internal communications about this. They are hearing about this via news reports, if it turns out to be true. https://twitter.com/...

• @packym Packy McCormick on x

  if you love something set it free https://twitter.com/...

• @davidzmorris @davidzmorris on x

  Twitter stock surging (+6%) on the news of Dorsey stepping down. Makes me extremely pessimistic for the future of this site as a user. He has been extremely slow in adding features and that's a GOOD THING.

• @seldo Laurie Voss on x

  Wait no they were just getting somewhere https://twitter.com/...

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  Pre-trading seems very happy about this, Twitter shares are up around 11%. Think there is a good argument Dorsey has been a distracted, part-time CEO and potentially a drag on good work happening elsewhere in the company. https://twitter.com/...

• @zr1trader @zr1trader on x

  JACK DORSEY STEPS DOWN PLANS ON BECOMING AYAHUASCA SHAMAN IN THE AMAZON JUNGLE https://twitter.com/...

• @sam_l_shead Sam Shead on x

  Twitter shareholder Elliot Management tried to replace Dorsey as CEO in 2020. Paul Singer, the founder of Elliot Management, said Dorsey should pick one company to run

• @triketora Tracy Chou on x

  people are that optimistic about jack leaving twitter, huh https://twitter.com/...

• @ivanthek @ivanthek on x

  TWTR up 11% on news that the company may soon have a full time CEO.

• @yoda Drew Olanoff on x

  great move. there's a very short list i'd like to see at the helm. @kayvz is at the top of that list. https://twitter.com/...

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  $TWTR +10%

• @ryan_browne_ Ryan Browne on x

  Huge: Twitter CEO @jack set to step down https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @jyarow Jay Yarow on x

  Twitter soaring after @davidfaber reports @jack will step down as CEO. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @madmanweb Madhu Menon on x

  Reading this by @CaseyNewton gives some insight into why Twitter product development has sucked monkey balls forever. I've maintained that they're one of the most lethargic tech companies and everything they change has a 50% chance of making things worse. https://www.platformer.n…

• @digiphile Alex Howard on x

  “looking at these facts, it's easy to imagine 2 scenarios: 1 in which @jack saw a revived fight coming his way & deciding to leave before it happened; another in which the board told him his time was up & to bow out gracefully.”—@CaseyNewton https://www.platformer.news/ ...