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The Tai Lopez Show

How 4 Guys Built Twitter In 2 Weeks: "Hatching Twitter" Book with Nick Bilton (Interview)

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The story of the guys who went from nothing to starting Twitter.

Make sure you grab a copy of "Hatching Twitter".

Despite all the evidence most people still don't believe.

Find something worth building and you might be the next rags to billions story

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0:00.0

One of the stories that I actually learned the most was when all these guys got together and started this business.

0:07.0

They didn't start it as a business. They started it as a cure for loans.

0:13.0

Alright, welcome to today's Book of the Day show talking about Twitter with the man who knows more about Twitter than anybody except maybe the founders of Twitter.

0:31.0

I actually think I know more than that.

0:32.0

Oh, that's good. That's good.

0:34.0

Because they don't talk to each other and I did.

0:36.0

So, you know, I would put it out there that I probably know a little more than them in some respects.

0:42.0

Awesome. Nick built in his books in New York Times, Best Seller, hatching Twitter.

0:47.0

This is the real story and so much of Twitter, it's interesting because I do a lot on Twitter now in terms of posting.

0:57.0

And I just had a tweet I did go viral, got like 8,000 favorites and retweets.

1:04.0

And Twitter, it's almost become just part of something you have to do as a business person.

1:11.0

It's just part of, it's like Facebook.

1:14.0

It's become so ubiquitous that there's billion, what's the worth, what's the value on Twitter now?

1:20.0

Well, it's right now it's around 17, 18 million but that's because it's at a very low point because of all the CEO troubles I've been having.

1:27.0

Right.

1:28.0

The tie it was, you know, almost double that.

1:32.0

So, it's a, I think it'll get back up into the 28 billion range once they saw a few issues that are having.

1:44.0

Yeah. Well, I think so, I just read the book.

1:48.0

I kind of reread it last night in preparation for talking to you.

1:52.0

My overarching feel is like, it's a good story.

1:57.0

A lot of people say, Ty, do you want a business partner?

2:01.0

And I'm always like, yeah, business partners are usually, you read this book and it's like, I don't know if you want a business partner.

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