by Nick Bilton
Bilton reconstructs the messy founding of Twitter from hundreds of interviews and internal documents, tracing the betrayals among Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. The book argues that the clean founder myth the company projected concealed a sequence of boardroom coups that shaped the product itself.
In this collection, Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal references 3 other books.
It draws on The Everything Store, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and Steve Jobs.
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Bilton works in the access-journalism tradition Stone established with The Everything Store, using insider interviews and documents to reconstruct a secretive tech company
Bilton draws on Levy's In the Plex for the comparative Silicon Valley context and the Google-era culture that shaped how Twitter's founders thought about scale
Isaacson's Steve Jobs is the founder-biography template Bilton adapts for a four-way Twitter cofounder conflict, invoking Jobs directly when profiling Dorsey's emulation of him
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