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28 Oct 2020 Acquired Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
“You can't, despite what anyone else wants to say, you can't build an advertising business in which a bunch of other people own the user experience because it doesn't make any sense.”
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- Dick Costolo
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- Recorded
- 28 Oct 2020
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- Acquired
- Episode
- Twitter (with Dick Costolo)
Transcript context
…To my mind at least, there's one other piece, maybe two other pieces, but one other piece in particular I want to cover to all of this as you're building this engine, and that's the third party piece of this. If the advertising model for Twitter is tweets, people consume Twitter all over the place. It was obvious to me when I was CEO for a couple reasons, and I'll go into them and they're not well understood but it doesn't matter, that we had to own the user experience. You can't, despite what anyone else wants to say, you can't build an advertising business in which a bunch of other people own the user experience because it doesn't make any sense. You need to be a nonprofit at that point and just decide we're not being serious. I'm not being facetious. Totally. I mean, it makes a ton of having—…
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