Twitter CEO Evan Williams turned down Facebook’s $500 million
Twitter CEO Evan Williams always seems to be where the action is. He sold his blogging company to Google in 2003. He chased the short-lived podcasting craze with another startup. That company accidentally spawned Twitter, the microblogging service that’s stolen the buzz from bloggers. It seems sensible that Williams would sell Twitter to Facebook, another social networking site that actually makes money. So why did he and his board turn down a $500 million offer from Facebook?
Imitation is the soul of flattery, and the engine of Silicon Valley, Hence, Mark Zuckerberg Did it
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mitation is the soul of flattery, and the engine of Silicon Valley. Whatever can be copied, will be — especially when the copiers are pals. After a redesign, Facebook has made its status-update feature more prominent. It now asks users, “What are you doing right now? A sharp-eyed reader notes that those words are eerily similar to Twitter’s “What are you doing?” We wonder if this will pose any problems for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s newfound friendship with Twitter founder Ev Williams.
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