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Episode Transcript: #1236 - Jack Dorsey
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Boom hello Jack. What's up? Nice to meet you man. Nice to meet you finally. Yeah, keep this sucker like a fist from your face
So good first of all dude
You started a company when you started Twitter when you guys first started did you have any idea?
There's no way you could have added any idea what it would be now. No, but
One of things I always try to emphasize with people when they're people like oh Twitter's crazy like how could it not be crazy
There's never been anything like it before like imagine trying to predict
The kind of in the president United States uses threat Twitter to threaten other countries. Yeah, I mean
Did you think it was gonna be when you first did it well, you know, we were building this thing for ourselves and that's how
Everything starts we wanted to use it we wanted to
We wanted to you know stay connected with each other we group text like a group text we loved our phones we loved
Technology we we actually started this as a
Hack week project out of a failed company called odio is podcasting. I remember that. Yeah super early on we were
We're really creative folks, but we weren't that passionate about where podcasting was going in
our particular
Domain and we just got a lot of competition early on itunes just released their podcast directory, but we knew we wanted to work together we knew
We love this idea of one button publishing we love this idea of collaboration. We love this idea of
Being anywhere and being able to
Share what was happening that was that was the idea. I mean that that was it and that's what we wanted it to be
And I think the most beautiful and also sometimes uncomfortable aspect of Twitter is