Liz Gannes

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Left-out Twitter Co-Creator Noah Glass Speaks Up

There’s nothing like success to attract people sharing the credit, and today Evan Williams gets some of what Mark Zuckerberg’s been dealing with–but with a bit more credibility. In a story about Twitter’s origins, Business Insider has a rare and captivating interview with Noah Glass, a little-acknowledged and somewhat bitter co-creator. Glass, however, has not sought notoriety, nor is he suing Twitter for leaving him out, having “received a certain amount of equity” after bringing his grievances to the company. To be fair, Glass’s role was acknowledged in recently reinstated co-founder Jack Dorsey’s retelling of the company’s history on its fifth birthday.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer