So Twitter is going public, but why aren't any of the original founders actually working

at the company anymore?

I mean, come on, this is a pivotal triumphant moment, right?

Well, I got New York Times tech columnist Nick builton on the phone.

He has a book coming out called Hatching Twitter, a true story of money, power, friendship,

and betrayal.

Pretty sexy stuff for Silicon Valley.

And I wanted him to explain how a service built on connections ended up driving this

for some apart.

So let's just go back for those people who don't know the four founders, Biz Stone, Evan

Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass.

These four dudes who created a company, but none of them are in charge anymore.

What happened there?

Well, I think that, you know, this happened a lot in Silicon Valley, you know, there's

the saying that, you know, a company that fails as many fathers, but a company that's successful

has won.

And in this respect, it essentially has, I mean, it's a bit of both, you know, all the

people that were involved in the beginning, you know, some of them made a lot of money

and their names are out there and they've gone to do other things.

But I think that the company just grew too quickly and needed different managers and

different people at different times.

So like, can you just give us a little nibble or a little story?

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