Dick Costolo
Dick Costolo
Dick Costolowas the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010. On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo would step down as CEO on July 1, 2015 and would be replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey on an interim basis until the Board of Directors could find a replacement. On August 8, 2015, The New York Times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth10 September 1963
CountryUnited States of America
The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.
If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.
Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.
Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?
That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.
Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.
The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.
As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.
Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.
Twitter is a global town square.
When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.