Twitter's COO Dick Costolo Talks About Management, Monetization and IPO Cravings!

Yesterday, BoomTown headed to the well-appointed downtown San Francisco HQ of Twitter as part of a renewed quest that I have dubbed “Meet the Twits.” No, really! Since Twitter has been on a significant hiring spree for all kinds of execs and staffers–it now has almost 250 employees–I have been in need of some serious meeting and greeting to see what’s going on there at the microblogging kingpin. First stop: COO Dick Costolo.

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Twitter Grabs a Google, White House Vet For International

Katie Stanton, a veteran of Google, the White House and the State Department, is headed to Twitter in August to drive international operations and business strategy as VP of International. She’ll report directly to COO Dick Costolo.

Media Mogul Steve Rattner Goes to Washington, Where He Won’t Be Car Czar

Steve Rattner, once one of the most prominent bankers in the media business, is going to Washington after all. Except that the Quandrangle Group founder won’t be getting the “Car Czar” job he was originally supposed to take in the Obama administration, since that job never got created. He’ll be an adviser, instead. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has formally appointed his New Media team.
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