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Ex-Twitter Designer Joins Ex-Twitter Pals at Obvious Corp.

Dave Gamache, a designer who recently left his job at Twitter, announced Friday that he would soon join the ranks of Obvious Corp. It’s the outfit founded by Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman, three of the earliest Twitter employees (the first two are founders), who are all no longer with the microblogging service. Gamache’s arrival announcement comes soon after news that Ian Ownbey, another Twitter employee, said he would join Branch, a social start-up advised by none other than Obvious Corp.


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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