Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Plus JackO's Sports Hell Continues | The Bill Simmons Podcast (Ep. 472)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 125 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey to discuss Twitter's origins, the birth of the #hashtag and @ symbol, NBA Twitter, new technologies, Twitter reform, and much more (2:15). Then Bill calls up his buddy JackO to discuss Tom Brady, the New England Patriots almost moving to Hartford, Connecticut, some questionable decisions by the Yankees' front office, and Donald Trump's presidency (1:28:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.7	podcasts that we've already put up this week, including winging it, Vince Carter and Ken Bayes
0:51.4	Moore. They talked to Dwayne Wade. He's only one of the 40 best basketball players of all time.
0:56.1	You should probably listen to this. We also did a rewatchables, a brand new one,
1:01.7	about fast and furious part one, which was called the fast and the furious.
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1:20.3	Game of Thrones is coming. It's happening. Binge mode. They're getting ready. They're finishing a
1:26.4	party right now. I'm binge mode, but eventually Game of Thrones. We will be preparing like it is the
1:30.4	NBA playoffs coming up. We are going to talk to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and then just to get a
1:37.8	little sports in here. We're gonna call my buddy, Jack O who really hates the Patriots. I don't
1:43.6	fully understand. I don't know what the Patriots did to him personally, but we're gonna talk about that.
1:47.6	We're gonna talk about the Yankees Red Sox off season as well. Maybe just a little dash of
1:53.2	Trump, a little sprinkling. We'll see how that park goes. But first, our friends from ProJamp.
2:04.3	We're taping us on a Friday. Jack Dorsey is here. What is your official title? Creator of Twitter?
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