The founding of Twitter was a bit of a mess. This is just my understanding of it, is most likely at least partially wrong and is certainly missing details: Wi

The founding of Twitter was a bit of a mess. This is just my understanding of it, is most likely at least partially wrong and is certainly missing details: Williams and Noah Glass founded Odeo which did podcasting, Williams was the CEO and the initial $. Dorsey / Stone worked for Odeo. When iTunes added podcasting, the writing was on the wall for Odeo. A small group inside Odeo started working on other ideas, one of which was twitter. This group was (depending on who you ask) Glass, Dorsey and a contractor, Florian Weber. After getting the soft public release up, Glass wanted to spin out twitter as a separate company. Then some unknown stuff happened, Williams fired Glass, founded a new company called Obvious Corp with Dorsey, Stone and some others. Obvious Corp (Williams' $) bought out the investors of Odeo, thus acquiring all it's assets, including twitter then spun out twitter and sold off the assets of Odeo to a third party. Interesting interview with Noah Glass here: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-cofounder-noah-glass-2011-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-cofounder-noah-glass-...