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By Nick Bilton
Published: 2013
""The only thing harder than starting a company is keeping it alive, and the only thing harder than that is being true to your vision while navigating the chaos around you.""
"Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics, media, and other fields in innumerable ways. Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind the scenes with a narrative that shows what happened inside Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds."--Provided by publisher.ayed friendships and
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Hatching Twitter
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Nick Bilton is an acclaimed author, journalist, and speaker known for his insightful explorations of technology and culture. He is the former chief reporter for The New York Times' Bits blog, where he covered Silicon Valley and the impact of technology on society. Bilton is the author of several notable works, including 'Hatching Twitter', which chronicles the founding and rise of the social media platform, and 'I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works', which examines the implications of emerging technologies on daily life. His writing style is characterized by a blend of investigative journalism and narrative storytelling, offering readers both informative and engaging accounts of the rapid evolution of the digital age.
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