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He was A VP of Product. Not The VP of Product. The head of product is Keith Coleman, who was preceded by Edward Ho (interim, now also (interim?) head of engine
by argonaut 10y ago
He was A VP of Product. Not The VP of Product.
The head of product is Keith Coleman, who was preceded by Edward Ho (interim, now also (interim?) head of engineering) and preceded by Jeff Siebert (both of whom are still at the company).
- mynameishere 10y agoSo, they have one product but multiple VPs of product? Sounds like some trimming was in order.
- argonaut 10y agoFacebook has multiple VPs of product. So does Google. This is common...
- Karunamon 10y agoFacebook and Google aren't financially struggling. There's something to be said for "too many chefs" when your main issue is doing something, anything to make some cash. Perhaps some downsizing was truly in order. On the other hand, losing this many execs in this short of time almost never bodes well, which means their stock price is going to tumble even further without something drastic happening soon.
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- balls187 10y ago> Facebook and Google aren't financially struggling. Because advertising on Facebook and Google pays off. Twitter, afaik, has struggled to be a relevant ad platform.
- cbsmith 10y agoDepends on what you mean by "relevant"... It took in nearly $550 million last quarter.
- ci5er 10y agoAt $2B/year, I can only hope to be that irrelevant. Now, if you want to talk about the $2.5B expense line....
- lallysingh 10y ago$2.5B!! What are they blowing that kind of cash on?
- wattt 10y agoIt took them 6 weeks to change the star button into a heart, which nobody wanted because we don't "like" all the things we save for later. Twitter has been going in the wrong direction all year.
- stonogo 10y agoIt is common when you have more than one product.
- balls187 10y agoTwitter has more than one product. Off the top of my head: Twitter App- Web, IOS, Android, Other Twitter API Twitter Firehose Twitter Advertising Twitter Analytics
- bleachedsleet 10y agoDon't forget Periscope...not sure how that fits into the company structure though, admittedly
- was_boring 10y agoIsn't periscope being shut down?
- chanux 10y agoThat's vine I guess.
- curiousDog 10y agoI think that's Vine.
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- cpollard0 10y agoThe public facing platform is just one of many products twitter offers. They also offer advertising that is probably considered its own product...
- ryanSrich 10y agoI'm sure Twitter has far more than one product.
- mathattack 10y agoIt's just a title, and titles are free. If you want to see a lot of VPs, go visit your friendly neighborhood bank. :-)
- tyingq 10y agoOutside of banks, a VP title usually means "company officer", and usually comes with perks and legal changes that do cost something.
- cbsmith 10y agoUnless you visit a tech company outside of the financial business... or really a ton of other companies.
- tyingq 10y agoSo, Twitter VPs aren't company officers? Edit: Twitter's bylaws suggest that a VP is a company officer.
- argonaut 10y agoTwitter's bylaws (and those of the other companies) are ambiguous. They do not clearly say a VP = officer. They only use them in the sense that they mention them in the same sense.
- morgante 10y agoNope. I've been a VP without being an officer.
- tyingq 10y agoThat's why I said usually. I did just check the bylaws for Alphabet/Google, Twitter, Amazon, and eBay. All have similar language showing vice presidents as officers. It's also been that way at the companies I've worked for, across several industries.