Recode Decode: Dick Costolo, CEO, Chorus

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Chorus CEO Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why he loves comedy and why his peers in the tech community are so infrequently "in on the joke." Before he was a tech entrepreneur, Costolo wanted to be a comedian, taking improv classes at Second City in Chicago in the hopes of one day making it to "Saturday Night Live." Today, he explains, more people than ever have the ability to succeed in comedy because they can make and distribute their comedy online, rather than needing to go to Second City or be a touring stand-up comic. Costolo also talks about what happened when he left Twitter and how he became an advisor to the writers of HBO's "Silicon Valley" during that show's third season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the box media podcast network.
0:06.6	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode.
0:09.4	You may know me as that person who was tweeting all night on New Year's Eve, but in my spare
0:13.3	time I talk tech, and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's
0:17.4	key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:20.8	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music,
0:25.1	or wherever you listen to podcasts, or just visit recode.net-podcast for more.
0:31.1	Today I'm in San Francisco with Dick Costello, the former CEO of Twitter.
0:36.2	He's one of my favorite guests.
0:37.8	He's now the CEO of a fitness startup called Corus, but over the course of January we're
0:42.2	going to be doing several episodes of Recode Decode together.
0:45.3	He's going to be my co-host, and we're going to be talking about comedy.
0:49.3	So today for our first episode, I'll be interviewing him because he is quite funny and he has
0:53.4	a career in comedy.
0:54.6	Well, now we're set up for failure.
0:56.1	That's way the way to go.
0:57.7	But later this month we're going to be talking.
0:59.7	The surest way to guarantee it's all going to go to the mail.
1:01.8	No, but later this month we're talking a lot of people from the comedy and where comedy
1:05.2	is going, and we'll get into why a comedy online and all kinds of things.
1:09.8	Okay, wait, that's going to be great.
1:11.9	Yeah, I want to start.
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