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Noah Glass got hosed.

• tonystubblebine 7y ago
  I like Noah, but I don't think this is really true. Twitter was spun out of Odeo and that spin out was based on Ev's money and Jack's idea. In the spin out, Ev & Jack were basically recruiting out of the Odeo team. Some of us didn't want to go along. I just up and quit, I was so frustrated there. But Noah did want to continue and wasn't taken along. This all went down when Twitter was in a very, very weak position, i.e. didn't really have any value other than the fact that Ev & Jack wanted to work on it. It probably had 200 users or even less. This is a classic case of the idea is worthless and the execution is everything. Ev & Jack were the ones carrying the ability to execute this. So, Noah getting hosed really comes down to he wanted a job and didn't get it. I know that hurts, but it doesn't deserve to be the scandal that Nick Bilton made it out to be. For the scandal to work, people try to latch on to Twitter being prototyped inside the Odeo corporate entity which would make Noah a founder. That entity was dead though. Audio blogging and podcasting directories didn't work in 2005. That's what Noah really co-founded. And so in the break up of the company, Ev bought all the assets. There was no other buyer, no other source of funding, or even a desire to keep any of the products alive. Noah did end up with stock in the new Twitter and that makes it a pretty good outcome for him.