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Industry Insiders Say This Man Doesn't Get Enough Credit For Saving Twitter From Disaster

But there's another Twitter executive industry sources say deserves as much credit for maturing the…

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Twitter Is Shutting Down Posterous, A Site For Blogging

One curiosity: We learned that Twitter COO Ali Rowghani served on the board of Posterous after the …

Owen Thomas   


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BlackRock Buys A Stake In Twitter From Employees

Twitter recently promoted its CFO, Ali Rowghani, to COO, and hired Zynga executive Mike Gupta to fi…

Owen Thomas   


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Y Combinator pulls back from late-stage startup investing to focus on its core accelerator program, and parts ways with 17 employees

Y Combinator decided to refocus after finding that late-stage investing was a "distraction" from it…

Madeline Renbarger   


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This former Twitter exec thinks he's found the next Salesforce - and it just hit $108 million in funding

CEO Peter Reinhardt, a 27-year-old MIT dropout, launched Segment through the Y Combinator incubator…

Becky Peterson   


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This open source messaging startup raised $50 million to take on Slack and Microsoft Teams and rope in customers who care a lot about privacy

"The simple way of thinking about is people who can't use Slack but don't like Teams," Tien said. …

Rosalie Chan   


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TROUBLE AT TWITTER: COO Could Be Out Because Of Slow Growth

He sold 300,000 shares of Twitter for $9.9 million when the lockup period ended. The rest of Twitte…

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Y Combinator has raised a $700 million fund to back mature startups

"I didn't realise at the time how truly distinctive YC is. There's no other organisation in the wo…

Sam Shead   


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What Happened Inside Twitter That Led To The COO Leaving The Company

Twitter thinks it has the right person in place to solve its product issues. It hired Daniel Graf f…

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Here's A Brutal Quote About Twitter CEO Dick Costolo From A VC Who Owns Shares In Twitter

It's an unusually frank, on-the-record statement from a VC. It also seems a little unfair, since we…

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NBC Exec Blasts Twitter's Effect On Ratings: 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes'

But now, NBCUniversal head of research Alan Wurtzel is saying that's all bunk. He told The Financia…

Aaron Taube   


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LIVE: Twitter Earnings

We also heard that Rowghani was a key person for talking to analysts and investors. So, when he lef…

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Billion-Dollar Startup Eventbrite Poaches The Guy Who Was In Charge Of Twitter's Redesign

"We were looking for somebody who understood who knew how to take a really great business and shift…

Maya Kosoff   


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10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

1. Twitter's COO Ali Rowghani is out of the company, and we're told it's all about making product d…

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The Goldman Banker Who Led Twitter's IPO Anthony Noto Is Its New CFO

This seems to be part of the on-going executive shuffle at Twitter. COO Ali Rowghani left the compa…

Jillian D'Onfro   


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10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

3. BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti did a super long interview. We haven't read the whole thing, but at t…

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Dick Costolo Is Now Out Of Excuses At Twitter - And That's A Good Thing

Costolo is likely to run into some serendipitous good news over the next month or so simply because…

Jim Edwards   


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Here's The Underlying Problem That Will Move Twitter's Stock On Tuesday's Earnings Call

But even if you assume that Rowghani and Costolo have this licked, there's a deeper, underlying iss…

Jim Edwards   


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Stocks Are Falling

In corporate news, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, just announced that the company is making its patents a…

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