What Dorsey’s Exit Means for Twitter’s Future

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On Monday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced -- in a tweet -- that he was leaving the company he co-founded in 2006. His successor, Parag Agrawal, started as a product engineer and climbed Twitter’s ranks to become Chief Technology Officer in 2017. We'll look at Dorsey’s legacy and discuss what the change could mean for the future of the San Francisco-based social media giant as it grapples with challenges like misinformation and finding new users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.9	There was some big Bay Area news this week.
0:51.1	On Monday, Jack Dorsey announced that he's stepping down as CEO of Twitter.
0:55.7	For 15 years, Twitter has been an absolute fountain of both creativity and toxicity. And it now
1:01.6	serves as an overlay atop the whole rest of media. It's fair to say that Jack Dorsey and the rest
1:08.0	of the founders of social networks were woefully unprepared to become
1:11.7	the de facto editors of the global information system. By and large, they were smart, technically
1:17.0	gifted dudes who found themselves riding a wave of history into a future that they just barely
1:22.1	made out before others. That said, they did leave their mark on the things they built, and Jack Dorsey is no exception.
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