Quotes from Hatching Twitter

Some great quotes to remember from the book Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton:

Ev asked his first question to Bill Campbell, a legendar CEO coach, who had mentored Steve Jobs and a long list of other titans during the coaching session:

What’s the worst thing I can do as CEO to fuck the company up?

Without skipping a beat, Campbell responded:

Hire your fucking friends!

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 Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow.

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Time heals all wounds, but some leave very visible scars.

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For another short story from the book, you can read this one:

https://volkanyorulmaz.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-if-entrepreneur-like-jack-dorsey.html

What if an entrepreneur like Jack Dorsey becomes broke

Currently I am reading the book Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton’s book about the company’s origins. The most memorable stories in Hatching Twitter almost invariably involve Jack Dorsey, who is 343rd in Forbes billionaires list. Let me share one of them:

Even if Jack Dorsey hadn't started two of the biggest tech companies [Twitter, the social media platform, and Square, a mobile payments company.] in the world, Dorsey would be a fascinating character. A two-time college drop-out, he has studied botanical illustration and dress making, and worked for a time as a massage therapist. According to the book Hatching Twitter by New York Times writer Nick Bilton, he was once so broke in his early twenties that he set up an auction on eBay where he offered to read the children's book Goodnight Moon to the highest bidder. (Four people took up the offer, one of them paying $100.)

The related paragraph in the book [Hatching Twitter] is as follows:

"Jack had done similar bizarre experiments before joining Odeo. In 2002, in his early twenties, he had become enamored with eBay. At the time, he was destitute and didn’t have anything to sell, so he set up auctions where he offered to read the famous children’s book Goodnight Moon over the phone to the highest bidder. He somehow managed to sell his reading service to four different people – one of whom paid one hundred dollars to listen to Jack, a perfect stranger, read."

Billionaire

I wanna be a billionaire so fricking bad
Buy all of the things I never had
Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine
Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen

Oh every time I close my eyes
I see my name in shining lights
A different city every night oh
I swear the world better prepare
For when I’m a billionaire

Yeah I would have a show like Oprah
I would be the host of, everyday Christmas
Give Travie a wish list
I’d probably pull an Angelina and Brad Pitt
And adopt a bunch of babies that ain’t never had sh-t
Give away a few Mercedes like here lady have this
And last but not least grant somebody their last wish
Its been a couple months since I’ve single so
You can call me Travie Claus minus the Ho Ho
Get it, hehe, I’d probably visit where Katrina hit
And damn sure do a lot more than FEMA did
Yeah can’t forget about me stupid
Everywhere I go Imma have my own theme music


Oh every time I close my eyes
I see my name in shining lights
A different city every night oh
I swear the world better prepare
For when I’m a billionaire
Oh oooh oh oooh for when I’m a Billionaire
Oh oooh oh oooh for when I’m a Billionaire

I’ll be playing basketball with the President
Dunking on his delegates
Then I’ll compliment him on his political etiquette
Toss a couple milli in the air just for the heck of it
But keep the fives, twentys (?) completely separate
And yeah I’ll be in a whole new tax bracket
We in recession but let me take a crack at it
I’ll probably take whatevers left and just split it up
So everybody that I love can have a couple bucks
And not a single tummy around me would know what hungry was
Eating good sleeping soundly
I know we all have a similar dream
Go in your pocket pull out your wallet
And put it in the air and sing

I wanna be a billionaire so fricking bad
Buy all of the things I never had
Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine
Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen

I wanna be a billionaire so frickin bad!

PS: 23 Nisan tatili hatırasıdır. Yazlık dönüşü yolda dinledim, şarkının içinde Forbes magazine muhabbetini duyunca 2007'deki hırsım aklıma geldi, blogumda şarkının sözlerini saklayıp, mp3 ünü de arşivime ekledim.