Podcast appearances and mentions of Dick Costolo

Missed promotions, broken promises, and the fallout that follows. Promotions gone wrong? Yeah, it's a thing. On this episode, Kim and former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tackle a listener's tale of missed opportunities, broken promises, and a management team that just can't get it together. From the cringe-worthy red flags to the frustrating aftermath, they explore how leadership missteps can wreak havoc on trust and motivation. Tune in for sharp insights, practical advice, and a whole lot of “what NOT to do” when navigating messy workplace dynamics. If you've ever felt stuck in a system that doesn't seem to work, this episode will help you find your way forward. Get all of the show notes at RadicalCandor.com/podcast. Episode Links: Transcript Managerial Musings With Kim Scott & Dick Costolo 5 | 26 Dick Costolo | LinkedIn Kim Scott & Dick Costolo Unpack the Messy Truth About Management Dilemmas What Happens When Promotions Go Sideways? Connect: Website Instagram TikTok LinkedIn YouTube Chapters: (00:00:00) IntroductionKim Scott introduces Dick Costolo, former Twitter CEO and stand-up comedian.(00:01:45) The Promotion PredicamentA listener's dilemma about missing out on a promotion.(00:05:00) Missteps by the First ManagerThe mistakes of the listener's first manager, focusing on false promises.(00:08:20) The Boss's Boss BlundersThe dismissive and damaging responses from the listener's boss's boss.(00:09:36) Advice for EmployeesStrategies for employees to clarify expectations with management.(00:12:29) Addressing Subjectivity in PromotionsThe challenge of fairness and transparency in dynamic organizations.(00:14:54) Navigating Difficult ConversationsThe value of candid, constructive dialogue over avoidance in leadership.(00:18:20) A Call for Transparent ProcessesHow structured processes can prevent workplace dissatisfaction.(00:20:30) Conclusion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the evolutionary purpose of laughter? What's the difference between Swedish depression and American depression? And why aren't aliens interested in abducting Mike?  SOURCES:Jennifer Aaker, professor of marketing at Stanford University.Judd Apatow, film director, screenwriter, and comedian.Fredrik Backman, author.Naomi Bagdonas, lecturer in management at Stanford University.James Corden, actor, comedian, and former late-night television host.Dick Costolo, former C.E.O. of Twitter.Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford University.Jimmy Fallon, comedian and late-night television host.Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.Jimmy Kimmel, comedian and late-night television host.Larry LaPrise, 20th-century American singer-songwriter.Jerry Seinfeld, comedian, actor, and writer. RESOURCES:"Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination," by Fredrik Backman (Simon & Schuster Centennial Celebration, 2024)."The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement," by Hannes Rosenbusch, Anthony M. Evans, and Marcel Zeelenberg (Psychological Science, 2022)."The 100-Million-Year Origin Story of Laughter and Humor," by Dean Russell (Endless Thread, 2022).Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And How Anyone Can Harness It. Even You.), by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas (2021)."What Makes Things Funny? An Integrative Review of the Antecedents of Laughter and Amusement," by Caleb Warren, Adam Barsky, and A. Peter McGraw (Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2020).Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, by Judd Apatow (2015).How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie (1936). EXTRAS:"Can A.I. Take a Joke?" by Freakonomics Radio (2023)."The Comedian-Ophthalmologist Will See You Now," by Freakonomics, M.D. (2022).There's Something About Mary, film (1998).

Eleven years ago, a little 6 second video sharing social media app that could (until it no longer did) came into being. The app: Vine. The First: Well... the first video shared on Vine, of course! We discuss a lost subway clip, the first Vine tweeted (which is probably the oldest still out there), the first Vine to be sold as art, and so much more! Did someone say "Capitalism"!? Plus, join us for a birdin' buggin' fallin' MouthGarf Report, and a rousing game of I See What You Did There! Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts! Want to ask us a question? Tell us about your favorite Vine? Pay to hear the end of Chelsea's stories? Email us at  debutbuddies@gmail.comListen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster.Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books.Get down with Michael J. O'Connor's music!Next time: First Trapeze Artist, with a special guest! 

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.This week we are pleased to be joined by Adam Bain of 01 Advisors, a San Francisco-based firm with nearly $1 billion under management.Adam and his partners, including Dick Costolo, have taken a very different approach to the venture model, drawing from their experiences as operators. While Adam was COO and Dick was CEO at Twitter, they helped the company scale from zero to in revenue as fast as any consumer tech company in history. During this time, they spent a significant amount of time with the late Bill Campbell, the legendary CEO coach who helped inspire the foundation for 01 Advisors.Since founding the firm in 2018, they have a uniquely focused approach to venture coaching and unlike other Series B and later VCs, they do not take board seats. We went through the why of this model. Along with topics such as the transition from operating to investing. And the future of potentially using models to determine founder archetypes.If you're a VC investor, then I'm sure you already know about Sydecar, the go-to platform for emerging VCs to manage their SPVs and funds. Sydecar is on a mission to make private markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid by standardizing how investment vehicles are created and executed. Their powerful software allows VCs to launch SPVs and funds instantaneously, track funding in real time, and offer hassle-free opportunities for early liquidity.Whether you're syndicating your first or fiftieth deal, Sydecar acts as your silent operating partner, handling all back-office functions in a single place. Sydecar always has your back, so that you never have to worry about chasing subscription docs, lost wires, or late K-1s.With all the recent ups and downs in the private markets, the last thing you want to worry about is whether your back office is operating smoothly. Sydecar's responsive and proactive customer support team is there to assist, helping you build trust with your investors and tackle the challenges of building your firm. Visit sydecar.io/ventureunlocked to learn more.About Adam BainAdam is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner for 01 Advisors, a venture & advisory firm that helps founders go from building a product to building a company with operational expertise.He was previously the COO for Twitter and a Board Director for Opendoor.In this episode, we discuss:(03:01) Adam shares his journey from Twitter to founding 01 Advisors, focusing on the transition from advertising and social media to a venture model that combines investing and advising(05:00) The unique backgrounds of 01 Advisors' partners in scaling companies from zero to significant revenues, showcasing a rare collective experience in tech leadership(08:01) The venture coaching approach at 01 Advisors that was inspired by Bill Campbell(14:35) Why 01 Advisors chooses not to take board seats, aiming to offer more effective and unrestricted guidance to CEOs(18:14) Helping CEOs appoint seasoned operators to board positions, ensuring comprehensive support without direct board involvement(22:08) 01 Advisors' focus on Series B investments, aligning their operational expertise with companies at a pivotal growth stage(24:16) 01's strategy of a concentrated portfolio to deeply engage and support their investments, contrary to the broader trend towards more extensive portfolios.(27:25) Diligence process for revenue streams and operational dynamics, aiming to identify areas where 01 can significantly impact growth.(29:00) The use of cognitive psychology for deeper CEO assessments post-investment, aiming to tailor support strategies to each leader's unique strengths and challenges(31:16) The early successes of this cognitive approach(34:42) The transition from high level operator to investor(39:58) Why he's excited continuous intellectual growth and the diverse learning experiences venture capital offers(43:14) The market in 2024 is the Super Bowl moment for 01I'd love to know what you took away from this conversation with Adam. Follow me @SamirKaji and give me your insights and questions with the hashtag #ventureunlocked. If you'd like to be considered as a guest or have someone you'd like to hear from (GP or LP), drop me a direct message on Twitter.Podcast Production support provided by Agent Bee This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ventureunlocked.substack.com

Guest: Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How To Work Together BetterAfter her first management book Radical Candor became a worldwide bestseller, Kim Scott found herself giving talks to all kinds of companies about how they could apply her advice and build a stronger, kinder culture. But then, after one such talk, the CEO — a longtime friend and former coworker — came up to Kim with an asterisk. As a Black woman, she explained, “as soon as I offer anyone even the most compassionate, gentle criticism, I get assigned the ‘angry Black woman' stereotype.” Kim realized in that moment that her book needed a prequel of sorts, explaining what you need to have before you can create radical candor: “You're not going to care about people who you don't respect,” she says.In this episode, Kim and Joubin discuss regret minimization, Juice Software, Sheryl Sandberg, saying “um,” moments of connection, Dick Costolo, negative truths, James March, snobbery, Charles Ferguson, Shona Brown, Fred Kofman, Christa Quarles, Jason Rosoff, Andy Grove, founders as outliers, Jack Dorsey, Steve Jobs, glows and grows, the Post Ranch Inn, failing your colleagues, sexual harassment, DEI, and intellectual honesty.In this episode, we cover:(01:04) - Loud voices (03:59) - Writing a bestseller (07:48) - Why Kim wrote Radical Candor (14:21) - How to show you care (18:04) - Coaching tech CEOs (21:24) - Ruinous empathy and obnoxious aggression (25:40) - Leaving things unsaid (30:30) - Not an academic (35:21) - Learning from failed startups (38:55) - Performance reviews (42:30) - Why feedback feels risky (49:21) - How to reject feedback (53:11) - Creating space for feedback at home (56:08) - Running and sleeping (59:45) - Radical Respect and Kim's other books (01:04:27) - The hardest story to share (01:06:44) - Optimism about the future Links:Connect with KimBuy Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityPre-order Radical Respect: How To Work Together BetterTwitterLinkedInConnect with JoubinTwitterLinkedInEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com Learn more about Kleiner PerkinsThis episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

Management expert and former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins Kim for Managerial Musings. Kim and Dick answer listener questions, read between the lines and offer advice for your trickiest workplace problems. Get the show notes at RadicalCandor.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Connie & Alex talk tech news, and then Connie interviews Dick Costolo (former Twitter CEO), Adam Bain (former Twitter COO), and David Fisher (former Facebook Chief Revenue Officer) of 01 Advisors.

Alex Beller is the co-founder and President at Postscript, an SMS marketing platform for growing Shopify businesses. Brooklinen, Kopari, Native, and Fanjoy rely on Postscript for hyper-segmented campaigns and texting with customers. Forbes named his company a Next Billion Dollar Startup in 2021 and has raised more than $106M from top investors like Dick Costolo's venture firm 01 Advisors, Twilio Ventures, Expanding Capital, m]x[v Capital, Greylock, Accomplice, Elephant, and OpenView. He was previously a Director of Business Development at StackCommerce. Sponsored by:

Join me as I speak with April Underwood, an early-stage investor with an impressive operating history at Slack, Google, and Twitter. Together, we delve into the distinctive product development styles of these tech giants, unlocking valuable insights and lessons from visionary leaders like Stewart Butterfield and Dick Costolo.  Tune in to gain insights into emerging trends in product-led growth and sales, and discover investment strategies tailored for startups. Learn how to spot exceptional founders and navigate the ever-evolving technology landscape. Don't miss out on this insightful episode packed with practical advice and industry knowledge. Tune in now! Chapters: (02:11) The Unifying thread in April's remarkable career path: insights from Silicon Valley (04:52) Exploring commonalities and differences between Google, Twitter, and Slack (08:32) Differentiating product development styles: unveiling Google, Slack, and Twitter's unique approaches (13:40) Lessons from visionary Leaders: Stewart Butterfield and Dick Costolo (17:19) Revealing the most valued leadership traits: insights from April's journey (22:39) Evolving trends in product-led growth and sales: insights from a decade of experience (25:48) Overcoming the Initial network barrier in communication products (32:17) Building a successful platform: lessons from Slack's integration strategy (38:07) Navigating competition between Microsoft and Slack (41:11) Investing insights: balancing conviction and fundamentals in startup investments (44:19) Spotting early exceptional founders: traits to look for (46:40) Informed AI investments amidst trendy tech categories (48:50) Working with an operator-investor: pros and cons for founders (52:37) Fundraising tips for early-stage founders: navigating pitfalls Guest Contact Info: https://twitter.com/aunder linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood Sponsor: This podcast is brought to you by ⁠grwth.co⁠. Grwth offers fractional CMOs, paired with best-in-class digital marketing execution to support early-stage startup success. With a focus on seed and series A companies, Grwth has helped a number of SaaS, digital health, and e-commerce startups build their go-to-market function and scale up. To learn more and book a free consultation, go to ⁠grwth.co⁠. Get in touch with Mosheh: ⁠linkedin.com/in/moshehp ⁠⁠twitter.com/MoshehP ⁠⁠hello@pmfpod.com ⁠⁠www.pmfpod.com

Host Kara Swisher is joined by Kieran Culkin to discuss what's going on with Roman in episode five, “Kill List” – the Roys' Scandinavian adventure. Then, the former CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, shares thoughts on Lukas Matsson and the veracity of the deal at that Nordic retreat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie Couric sits down with Adam Bain and Dick Costolo, co-founders and managing partners of 01 Advisors to discuss the firm's key differentiators, the biggest success and failures, and the system behind working closely with CEOs.

On this week's episode of the Escape Your Limits Podcast, we talk about metabolic health and how it can help regulate your sleep, appetite, weight, and energy. Although the concept of metabolic health isn't new, the latest research concluded that it is one of the leading causes of infertility, diabetes, depression, and even erectile dysfunction. By leveraging biosensors like continuous glucose monitors, this piece of wearable tech by Levels raised a total of $50M through high profile investors such as: Marc Randolph (co-founder of Netflix), Dick Costolo (former CEO of Twitter), and many more. Today Dr. Lauren Kelley-Chew talks us through: The ultimate guide to metabolic health, and its 5 key biomarkers Why insulin resistance is on the rise, and how it can be detrimental to your health And explaining why your appearance doesn't determine how healthy you are To learn more about Levels, click here! https://www.levelshealth.com/

(0:00) Intro and Recap(27:08) Packy & Ben Thompson on Optimism and Internet Trolls(33:26) Palmer Luckey on getting fired from Facebook(43:26) Parker Conrad on being forced out of Zenefits(51:33) Packy & Zach crypto debate(55:03) Mike Dudas & Zach crypto debate(1:02:49) Eric Glyman on being purposeful(1:10:16) Jon Wu & Zach crypto debate(1:16:49) Antonio García Martínez gets Zach to agree to a crypto use case(1:25:35) Sam Lessin & Zach have the biggest crypto fight(1:30:28) William Hockey on crypto's role in finance(1:38:22) Dick Costolo on his history at Second City(1:52:01) Kate Ryder on how healthcare coverage is decided(2:00:27) The live crypto debate(2:06:21) Mark Cuban on crypto/early internet parallels(2:14:24) The FTX crash Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 

En este episodio profundizamos en las lecciones de Bill Campbell a través del libro "Trillion Dollar Coach" de Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg y Alan Eagle. Mi compañero para esta hazaña es Carlos Gómez, CEO y fundador de Vivla, 7R ventures y ex-Googler, donde estuvo 10 años pasando por Dublín, San Francisco, Motorola o Waze. Bill fue probablemente el Coach de más éxito de la historia, trabajó con todo el equipo directivo de Google, fue el coach principal de Apple y Steve Jobs durante más de 15 años, del ex vicepresidente de EEUU Al Gore, de Dick Costolo (ex-CEO de Twitter) o de Sheryl Sanberg (COO de Facebook) entre otros.

Alex Beller is the co-founder and President at Postscript, an SMS marketing platform for growing Shopify businesses. Brooklinen, Kopari, Native, and Fanjoy rely on Postscript for hyper-segmented campaigns and texting with customers. Forbes named his company a Next Billion Dollar Startup in 2021 and has raised more than $106M from top investors like Dick Costolo's venture firm 01 Advisors, Twilio Ventures, Expanding Capital, m]x[v Capital, Greylock, Accomplice, Elephant, and OpenView. He was previously a Director of Business Development at StackCommerce.

The first SMS message was sent in 1992, but it's taken a while for messaging to become a standard communication and marketing channel for ecommerce brands.  Mobile commerce only really took off in the past decade as smartphones and ecommerce were widely adopted by consumers. According to Insider Intelligence, US mobile commerce will nearly double its share of total retail sales between 2020 and 2025. Postscript is a poster child of the mobile commerce trend. Founded in 2018, Postscript powers SMS for thousands of Shopify stores including brands like Native, Brooklinen, and Olipop. They use Postscript for everything from abandoned carts, to product drops, to 2-way customer support communication.In this conversation, Chris and Postscript President Alex Beller discuss Postscript's early days in startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC), where they were in the same cohort as Convictional. Alex shares why SMS has the potential to be a higher revenue-generating channel than email, how brands can leverage it more effectively, and best practices for the upcoming Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) holiday season. Finally, Alex and Chris reflect on the challenges of scaling companies in a remote environment and how they each have grown as young leaders since their time at YC.  Looking for some more resources to level up your SMS game during BFCM? Check out Postscript's BFCM Planner here. Connect with Alex on Twitter and LinkedinConnect with Chris on Twitter and LinkedinCheck out PostscriptAbout Alex:Alex Beller is the co-founder and President of Postscript, an SMS marketing platform for growing Shopify businesses. Brooklinen, Kopari, Native, and Olipop rely on Postscript for hyper-segmented campaigns and texting with customers. Forbes named his company a Next Billion Dollar Startup in 2021 and has raised more than $106M from top investors like Dick Costolo's venture firm 01 Advisors, Twilio Ventures, Expanding Capital, m]x[v Capital, Greylock, Accomplice, Elephant, and OpenView. He was previously a Director of Business Development at StackCommerce and received his Bachelor of Arts in both Philosophy and Music from the University of Southern California.About Convictional: Convictional helps retailers add new brands and categories to their assortments, without any inventory risk. Learn more at convictional.com.

(0:58) Mark Cuban canceled(4:08) The editing room(6:07) Logan's engagement(9:22) Welcome Dick Costolo(13:54) Dick's time at Second City(28:16) After Second City(32:44) Why Twitter is a unique challenge(35:06) Treating all Twitter accounts equally(40:09) Social Media Regulation(42:06) Twitter monetization(44:06) Trying to buy Instagram(48:37) Social media platform Saturn(52:01) Expectation setting(57:10) Leading a company you didn't found(59:53) Role vs identity(1:02:15) Bill Campbell's mentorship(1:07:57) Letting people go(1:12:47) Successful managing(1:15:42) Marxist vs Darwinian management(1:19:13) Assume best intentions(1:24:40) Getting unfollowed by Elon Musk(1:30:31) Rapid fire(1:35:14) Outro Mixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyProduced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad AssirExecutive Producer: Josh MachizMusic: Griff Lawson 

Whitney catches us up on her new stand-up special aftermath, being a try-hard, and reveals the most embarrassing thing she's ever done in private. Then, former head of Twitter Dick Costolo is here talking about robots, surveillance, and consulting on HBO's SILICON VALLEY.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our anchors begin today's show recapping Netflix's latest earnings with Citi analyst Jason Bazinet, and CNBC's Mike Santoli breaks down the Nasdaq showing signs of life to start July. Then, Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo offers his take on the platform's lawsuit against Elon Musk, and we circle back for more on Netflix with CNBC's Dom Chu. Next, FullCycle Founder and Managing Partner Ibrahim AlHusseini previews Tesla's Q2 results after the bell, and CNBC's Ylan Mui covers the CHIPS Act clearing a key hurdle in the Senate. Later, CNBC's Eunice Yoon shares new reporting on potential trouble brewing for Chinese tech companies and their workers.

El propio Dick Costolo, ex CEO de Twitter, declaraba en 2011 que las redes sociales eran el free-speech wing of the free-speech party (el ala de la libertad de expresión del partido de la libertad de expresión).

Our anchors begin today's show with former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo offering his outlook for the Nasdaq, and Unity CEO John Riccitiello shares insights from the video game software company's latest industry report. Then, CNBC's Steve Kovach weighs in on how the Federal Reserve's plan to hike rates will impact the cash stockpiled by tech firms, and PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada joins following the cloud computing platform's Q4 results. Later, our Julia Boorstin reports on Netflix testing a new fee for users sharing their accounts, and CNBC's Kate Rooney covers tech workers whose stock in their employers has plunged amid the sell-off hitting the sector.

Remember social media before Donald Trump's presidency? Dick Costolo does. He was Twitter's chief executive from 2010 to 2015. And despite being in the hot seat for certain content moderation decisions during his tenure, Costolo thinks that platforms have the right to take down whatever and whomever they want. Costolo argues that the key is transparency and companies acknowledging that every decision “ends up being subjective anyway” — so that no one is surprised “when we decide to treat the avatar who signed up on a Tuesday with zero followers differently than we treat The New York Times.”(No, we did not ask him to say that.)In this conversation, Kara Swisher talks to Costolo about content moderation pre- and post-Jan. 6, and how a decentralized, blockchain-based Twitter might create an information ecosystem in which “we all place our own filter over what the world looks like.” They also discuss Jack Dorsey's decision to step down as Twitter's chief executive in November. And in case the company's new leader, Parag Agrawal, is listening, Costolo shares some advice he received from Jeff Bezos when he first became Twitter's chief executive.You can find more information for all episodes at nytimes.com/sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter @karaswisher.

Remember social media before Donald Trump's presidency? Dick Costolo does. He was Twitter's chief executive from 2010 to 2015. And despite being in the hot seat for certain content moderation decisions during his tenure, Costolo thinks that platforms have the right to take down whatever and whomever they want. Costolo argues that the key is transparency and companies acknowledging that every decision “ends up being subjective anyway” — so that no one is surprised “when we decide to treat the avatar who signed up on a Tuesday with zero followers differently than we treat The New York Times.”(No, we did not ask him to say that.)In this conversation, Kara Swisher talks to Costolo about content moderation pre- and post-Jan. 6, and how a decentralized, blockchain-based Twitter might create an information ecosystem in which “we all place our own filter over what the world looks like.” They also discuss Jack Dorsey's decision to step down as Twitter's chief executive in November. And in case the company's new leader, Parag Agrawal, is listening, Costolo shares some advice he received from Jeff Bezos when he first became Twitter's chief executive.You can find more information for all episodes at nytimes.com/sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter @karaswisher.

Twitter has finally decided to transfer its reins from founders to professionals. India-born Parag Agrawal has succeeded co-founder Jack Dorsey as the CEO of the social media giant. So will a more diversified board, with an Indian at the helm of affairs, help the company at a time when it is aiming to double its revenue by 2023 and reinvent its image amid several allegations in recent times? In a statement, Dorsey said the company was ready to move on from its founders. The board of directors of Twitter unanimously selected Agarwal as CEO and a member of the board.   This was not Dorsey's first exit from the company. After co-founding the social media giant in 2006, Dorsey had been forced out in 2008. But he returned as CEO in 2015 after Dick Costolo stepped down. In 2020, Dorsey was accused of paying little attention to Twitter. Agrawal, meanwhile, had joined Twitter in 2011 with a focus on ad products. He became the first recipient of the company's “Distinguished Engineer” title. According to several media reports, as CTO, Agrawal encouraged Dorsey to allow Twitter to explore decentralisation and other related technologies.   A 2005 computer science and engineering alumnus of IIT Bombay, 37-year-old Agrawal is the youngest CEO leading a Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 company.   Agarwal, a known face in Silicon Valley, has a long and tough road ahead. By the end of 2023, the company wants to have 315 million monetisable daily active users. It also wants to double its revenue by then. Apart from meeting the financial targets, Twitter will also have to do a balancing act when it comes to sensitive issues. In October this year, Twitter admitted that its algorithm was giving more space to right-wing politicians than left-leaning ones.   And in September last year, some Twitter users had pointed out that the platform's photo previews favoured white faces to black. They posted photos of a black person's face and a white person's face side by side to show that Twitter's photo previews showed white faces more often. The social media giant had to apologise for this goof-up too. Agrawal, who was the chief technology officer (CTO) then, had taken stock of the situation and admitted that the model needed “continuous improvement”.   Agrawal is also tasked with addressing one of the company's biggest challenges in recent times – content moderation. Around this time last year, Twitter had labelled some tweets from former US President Donald Trump as “misleading” and “violent”.   And earlier this year, the Indian government and Twitter were locked in a bitter stand-off. First, it was about Twitter choosing not to ban tweets and accounts related to farmers' protests, despite requests from the government. Later, the Indian government had accused Twitter of not complying with its new rules for social media intermediaries, and even threatened legal action against its India executives. The situation had cooled down only after Twitter appointed an executive based out of India. Watch Video

**DISCLAIMER: THIS PODCAST IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE AND IS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.** Get ready to get nerdy on today's episode. For today's show, we're talking with Dr. Casey Means from Levels Health. We're doing a deep dive into how blood sugar is a key component of all things related to cellular and metabolic health, disease prevention, and body composition. Proper blood sugar control isn't just for diabetics and pre-diabetics, it's for anyone trying to live a longer, healthier, happier life; anyone looking to perform better, and anyone looking to maintain a healthier body composition.  Casey Means, MD is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tech-enabled tools that can inform smart, personalized, and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means's perspective has been recently featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Hill, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more. She has held past research positions at the NIH, Stanford School of Medicine, and NYU. Levels is the first biowearable system to provide real-time feedback on how food impacts your health in realtime. By leveraging continuous glucose monitoring technology, the Levels program helps users close the loop between health and daily lifestyle choices around food, exercise, sleep, and stress management. Our customers are losing weight, discovering their optimal diet, and improving long-term risk factors. In November, 2020, Levels raised a 12M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Marc Randolph (co-founder, Netflix), Esther Dyson, Dick Costolo (former CEO, Twitter), Michael Arrington (Founder, TechCrunch),  Matt Dellavedova (NBA, Cleveland Cavaliers), and others. Levels is currently running a closed beta program focused on product development and has a waitlist of over 115,000 people. Follow Dr. Casey on IG here. Follow Levels on IG here. ---- Interested in working with EDF Coaching to reach your fitness and lifestyle goals? Click here to inquire!  WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram YouTube Website (sign up for the email list here!) EmandDarbyPresets Instagram Legion Athletics - Code Embody Cured Nutrition - Code Emily ----------- The #JackedNNerdyTrainer At Home Program The #JackedNNerdyTrainer V I Program The #JackedNNerdyTrainer V II Program    

Linda Lian is the Co-Founder and CEO @ CommonRoom, the place where your organization and your community come together. To date, Linda has raised over $50M with CommonRoom from the likes of Danny Rimer @ Index Ventures, Sarah Guo @ Greylock, Dylan Field @ Figma, Dick Costolo and of course 20VC Fund. Prior to changing the world of community though, Linda spent close to 3 years at Amazon as a Senior Product Manager on AWS and Alexa. Before Amazon, Lida was on the other side of the table in venture as an associate at Madrona. In Today’s Episode with Linda Lian You Will Learn: 1.) How Linda made her way into the world of startups and came to start on the venture side with Madrona? How did Linda's time at Amazon shape her thinking around founding CommonRoom? What were Linda's biggest lessons from her time at Amazon and then also being mentored by Jeff Weiner 2.) How does Linda describe her leadership style today? What are the biggest lessons Linda has learned in terms of how to speak with compassion but also directness and clarity? Why is Linda not a fan of "the shit sandwich"? What is the most effective way to give feedback? 3.) What did Linda decide to only hire senior and experienced individuals with CommonRoom? What are the benefits of doing so? What are the downsides? How does Linda approach hiring such senior talent? What works? How is this also challenging? What does Linda mean by "the long poach"? 4.) How does Linda approach delegation today? What framework does Linda use to determine what to do vs what to delegate? How does Linda approach head vs heart when it comes to decision-making? What does it take for Linda to change her mind? What is required? 5.) What does Linda believe are the biggest misnomers around the search for product market fit? Why did Linda deliberately choose to stay in stealth despite raising over $50M from some of the world's best investors? How did that impact their ability on both product and customer discovery? As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

Host Karl interviewed Ryan Denehy, Founder and CEO of Electric (www.electric.ai). Electric manages pretty much any cloud-based services for end users. Interestingly, they provide support via Slack, Teams, and Email - not through a client-facing ticketing system. Ryan explains that they primarily focus on SaaS management, device management, and network management. In growing their MSP business, Ryan challenged the assumption that you have to be local and small in order to thrive in the SMB IT market. In particular, they challenged the belief that you have to look people in the eye and ask for their business. About Ryan: Ryan Denehy is a 3x entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Electric. Having experienced the pain and frustrations that many business owners encounter in managing their IT infrastructure and support needs, Ryan's light bulb idea to create a cloud-based, real-time, 24-7 IT Support ecosystem laid the foundation for Electric's vision to redefine IT Support for a new generation. Throughout the pandemic, Electric sought out to be the antithesis of all things “Silicon Valley bro culture”. The company has seen demand skyrocket during the pandemic and actually reopened its Series B round in March and April for added funds from Dick Costolo and Adam Bain at 01 Ventures. Links: https://www.electric.ai/ https://twitter.com/DenehyXXL https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandenehy Sponsor Note: Gatekeeper from Calyptix Security Introducing Gatekeeper from Calyptix Security: zero trust access securing RDP and SSH connections with two factor authentication without open ports to the internet, client installs or VPN. Two years of partner driven development brings audit friendly access across all types of devices. Reduce stress and implement proper safeguards as advised by the FBI, NSA and DHS, all in a purpose-built solution for small businesses. Interested? Learn even more by visiting calyptix.com/gatekeeper, and when you do, tell them Karl sent you. :-)  

Learn to Run Your I.T. Business Hosted by Jeff Halash from TechNutPC.com Paco Lebron from ProdigyTeks Ryan Denehy, CEO and founder of Electric   MSP Unplugged Video   Live Show and Chat every Friday at Noon EST Email: Jeff@MSPUnplugged.com   Support This Show Patreon.com/MSPUnplugged BuyMeACoffee.com/MSPUnplugged PayPal.Me/MSPUnplugged   TechCon Unplugged - BE THERE! BRINGING THE I.T. COMMUNITY TOGETHER Join like-minded business owners for a weekend packed with resources to help your IT business thrive! Hear from the experts and get one-on-one time with peers facing the same challenges. Walk away with concrete action items to take your business to the next level.   Main Topic: NYC tech startup MSP acquisition/growth story Throughout the pandemic, Electric sought out to be the antithesis of all things “Silicon Valley bro culture”. The company has seen demand skyrocket during the pandemic and actually reopened its Series B round in March and April for added funds from Dick Costolo and Adam Bain at 01 Ventures.   IT is not the sexiest industry, which might explain why it essentially saw no innovation for three decades, but Electric is changing that. CEO and founder, Ryan Denehy, and his executive team actively work against operating at the traditional breakneck pace of a tech startup, putting the emphasis on employee wellness and creating real change (and by that I do not mean free beer and a canned quote on Instagram).   Some of the initiatives they’ve implemented this year:   Part of NYTechCares, an initiative that crowd-sources funds, resources, and donations to help low-income students in NYC access e-learning opportunities. Partners with The Last Mile, a non-profit organization that provides coding and technology training to the incarcerated population across the U.S., training Last Mile students on coding, general interviews, engineering interviews, and more. Mandatory company-wide PTO the first Friday of every month, “No Meetings Thursdays”, and revamped employee review processes emphasizing empathy   Links: MSP Unplugged Docs   DISCLAIMER: This description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, we’ll receive a small commission.   Music By Jim Holley

Dick Costolo, former CEO of Twitter explains his journey throughout the business world from Twitter to today as a managing Partner @ 01 Advisors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter.How the heck did we end up thinking that humour and serious work are in opposition to each other?Today's guests, Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas, run a tremendously successful course at Stanford Business School on how we can all use humour to be better (and happier) at our jobs.One of the people they have coming along to guest speaker at their course is Dick Costolo, Dick was my former boss as CEO of Twitter (and hired me to work there). He had an unorthodox background spending his post college years initially trying to make it as an improv comedian at the legendary comedy club Second City in Chicago (alongside people like Steve Carrell from The Office). I mention it because it comes up in conversation. In my first three months at Twitter I had an excruciating embarrassing episode with Dick, he was coming to London and was doing an event for us. I'd lined him up to be in conversation with Rory Sutherland. His assistant told me that I should get to his hotel for breakfast, get a nice table and order his food for him. Breakfast should be full cooked breakfast with plenty of crispy bacon. It had to be crispy. I'm not sure if she was trolling me but oh dear. The story deserves a full telling another time because it became a calamitous moment for me. When you hear mention of him this is why they laugh."When we observe humour in others it's so much more about mindset"Jennifer and Naomi say students tell them "I'm not funny, I don't want to try to be funny" and this is the important revelation, to experience humour we don't need to seek to be the star of the skit, but more we need to allow ourselves to laugh at the lightness of a moment.At the end of the book they give a context for the book, Jennifer's mother works in a hospital dealing with patients who at the end of their lives are asked to reflect on how they would have spent time differently. It becomes clear that the absence of joy in their everyday lives was unnecessary and tragic.Take their quiz to find your own humour style. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“I think the biggest thing that I take away are these transferable skills where, you would think that touring the country and hustling and making it happen in that way is specific to music, but it's really not. That's going to help us in the future with our gym, it has already as we bootstrapped the gym and figured that whole thing out, and even with our kids, just that idea of one step at a time. All you have control over is your next step. And that was all the music ever was, too, what's my next step? What's my next step? I never… It took me probably five years of doing music full-time to actually admit that I was a musician. I was always like, “Well, I'm doing music until I have to get a real job.” And then maybe five years later I was like, “I guess I'm a musician, I guess I should own that.” So yeah, it's been fun to see how those skills kind of move into to different areas as well.” - Jonny Diaz Jonny Diaz is a contemporary Christian singer and songwriter with a number of chart topping albums, including  More Beautiful You which has appeared on several Billboard magazine charts, but his heart wasn't always set on being a musician.  He originally planned to focus his efforts on baseball, and attended Florida State University on a baseball scholarship.  As the fourth of four brothers to attend college on a baseball scholarship, two of whom have played professionally, a career in baseball seemed a natural fit.  However, while Jonny was in school, he also began to develop his musical talent.   Ultimately, he discovered that by working hard and pouring his time and energy into his passion for music, he was able to turn something he loved into his professional career. Libby Diaz grew up in Florida and fell in love with movement mechanics at a young age when she began using functional fitness to elevate her soccer training.  She went on to play collegiate ball at Florida State University, and after graduation she slowly grew her hobby of leading fitness classes for friends into her own business.  She started small, with an outdoor boot camp, and as her clientele grew she began renting space from other facilities until it became clear it was time to go all-in and pursue her passion. Together Jonny and Libby opened Fit Factory Nashville, a huge functional fitness gym with an incredibly close-knit community. I first met Jonny on an airplane, and over the years we've kept in touch through social media.  I'm so impressed and inspired by the way he and Libby have charted their own course as they've established non-traditional careers.  In this episode, we chat about how they turned their hobbies into thriving careers, how they navigate the challenges of owning their own businesses, and how they create balance in their lives as parents and busy entrepreneurs.   In this episode we discuss: Jonny and Libby's backgrounds and how they met The road to pursuing their passions after college How Libby turned her hobby into a business she's passionate about How Jonny started a career in the music industry How Jonny and Libby started CrossFit The rewards and challenges of turning their passions into their careers How they protect their time to create balance in their lives Things that have helped them navigate some of the challenges of owning their own businesses The power of having a mentor What their fitness routine looks like now that they have three kids and two businesses Lessons they've learned from the challenge associated with COVID Creative solutions to keep their coaches members bought into the business during COVID Three things Jonny and Libby do on a regular basis that have the biggest positive impact on their health One thing they struggle to implement that could have a big impact on their health What a healthy life looks like to Jonny and Libby You can follow Jonny on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.  You can follow Libby on Instagram, and you can follow Fit Factory Nashville on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Links: Jonny Diaz on Spotify Logan Gelbrich, Deuce Gym BirthFit ROMWOD Whole30 Some of Libby's favorite toe mobility: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4 Related episodes: Ep 01 - Rich Froning on Competition, Shifting Priorities, and Discovering His Purpose Ep 51 - Dick Costolo on Taking Risks and Finding Fitness Ep 41 - Graham + Savanna Holmberg: From Fittest Man, to Faith and Family   If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating. I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments below and on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health every other Tuesday. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. We recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from the hit TV series Seinfeld, where the holiday “for the rest of us” is featured in the episode “The Strike” as an invention of George’s dad, Frank. Festivus was, in fact, invented by someone’s dad, but as you’ll hear in this episode, it wasn’t George Costanza’s; it was Seinfeld writer Dan O’Keefe’s. Dan shares how he reluctantly turned a family holiday memory he’d long tried to repress into one of Seinfeld’s most iconic episodes. At the time, he wasn’t convinced it would be well received. “It was embarrassing to me and seemed insane and not in a good, quirky TV way but in, like, a sad creepy dysfunctional way,” he shares. And yet, not only was that episode a hit with audiences, decades later, the holiday lives on. In preparing for the interview, I looked up media mentions for Festivus in our Muck Rack software and found over 3,000 articles have mentioned it in the past 12 months alone. Also in this episode, Dan shares some insider details from his time writing for HBO’s Silicon Valley, where he interviewed start-up founders and entrepreneurs as part of his research. The year the show premiered, HBO sponsored The Shorty Awards, which I co-founded and run, and they invited us to watch the pilot. I remember watching it and thinking, this is so good — it’s so accurate and incisive. After talking with Dan about their research process, I now understand just why it was so realistic. To nail down the Silicon Valley culture, the writers piled into vans and visited various tech companies, where they hit up founders, executives, engineers and VCs for stories. Coincidentally, among those Dan talked with were a couple of past Venture Voice guests, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and my first guest on the podcast, the very funny Dick Costolo, then CEO of FeedBurner. According to Dan, a large percentage of the original Festivus was spent on airing grievances. I’m sure that’s something we can all get into as 2020 comes to a close. But you could probably also use a break about now, so tune in — I think you’re going to have a lot of fun with this one. Happy Festivus! *** If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and helps us continue to attract the entrepreneurs you want to hear and learn from. For show notes, past guests and transcripts, visit venturevoice.com Sign up for the Venture Voice email newsletter at venturevoice.substack.com/welcome Follow and connect on social: On Twitter: twitter.com/gregory On Instagram: instagram.com/gregory On YouTube: youtube.com/c/GregoryGalant On LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/galant/ Learn more about Muck Rack at muckrack.com and The Shorty Awards at shortyawards.com

Podcast show notes serve three main purposes. The first two serve existing listeners:1. To offer a summary of the show content – either to persuade someone to listen, or to remind a previous listener what was covered.2. To offer links to resources, people or products that were mentioned. You can't link within the show itself, so you offer the links on the show notes.The last serves you, and those who have yet to listen:3. To attract new listeners through search traffic.That last one is the one most podcasters neglect. You'll find a lot of podcasters throwing up show notes that are nothing more than a very quick introduction paragraph, and then a list of the resources that were mentioned. That's fine, as a minimum. It serves your listener, covering #1 and #2. But, if that's all you do, you're missing a trick in growing your audience.How Show Notes Can Grow Your AudienceA good set of show notes can attract legions of potential new listeners by appearing in the search results.How do you do that?By writing a blog post that covers the same topic as the podcast.That blog post acts as a written version of the show. Not a direct transcript, but something created to be read. It contains the same valuable information as the podcast, and encourages readers: “If you liked this, then listen to the podcast episode for even more.”Often in the podcast you'll tell more stories about it, give more examples, and that might be the extra value that gains you a new listener. Even if you don't add anything extra, many people will appreciate being given an audio version to listen to at another time.Example Show Notes: a Best Practice FormatHere's a best practice show notes format we often use, and which you can build from: Episode Summary – paragraph or bullet points Episode Player – embed from your host Timecode guide – list highlights and timecodes to skip to Full Topic guide – a blog post, essentially, covering the same topic Resources mentioned – summary & links to all resources Let's cover each element in a little more detail.1. Episode SummaryStart with a brief summary of the episode – either a 1 or 2 paragraph introduction, or a set of bullet points. This gives the listener the lowdown on what you're covering, and can help casual visitors decide whether it's worth listening to. This is important – show the problem you're solving to really engage with the listener, and persuade them to listen!2. Episode PlayerThen below that, we'll have the audio player, generated in whatever podcast host you normally use. This allows easy listening for casual visitors, or a simple way to review the content for subscribers.3. Timecode GuideThis takes a bit of effort, so it's more “icing on the cake” than essential, but it's hugely useful to listeners. And anything useful to listeners is a thing worth doing for audience growth!A timecode summary simply picks out the highlights of the episode, and lists when they happen, in the audio. This allows casual visitors to pick out the parts most relevant to this and get value right away. If they can do that, they're far more likely to subscribe!And for subscribers? It allows them to go back to the episode and re-listen to the parts they really engaged with. Again, most value for the listener, more success for the listener and so more loyalty to you!For example, an excerpt here from This Week in Startups which does a great summary, every week: … 39:02 OurCrowd – Sign up for a free account at https://www.ourcrowd.com/twist 40:46 Dick Costolo's responds to infamous & now-deleted tweet on Acquired's recent Twitter episode – was taking the tweet down the right move? 45:57 Thoughts on the proper way to do civil discourse at work 54:23 Jason in hot water with Bernie Bros due to recent pro-gig economy tweet, thoughts on Prop 22 & more 1:07:07 DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google, Apple ramps up development of their own search engine as Google partnership in hot water 1:10:40 Acquired's Top 10 Acquisitions of all time 1:15:34 Deep dive on the Google/Apple partnership, how the Android acquisition saved Google billions of dollar per year … 3. Full Topic Coverage (Blog Post)Next, below the player, you go into full detail, covering the main points of the episode and a little explanation around them. Within that extra detail, link to resources mentioned within the show. That means people can easily find anything you mention in the audio.The purpose of this is two-fold.First, it means the article is genuinely useful on its own, even without the audio. So, searchers are much more likely to find it via Google, skim the content, and perhaps end up subscribing to the show. This is one of your biggest growth opportunities, since text search reaches such a wider audience than podcast search.Second, this makes your show notes so valuable to existing subscribers. They can, at any time, visit this page to review all the material, re-learn it, pick out elements to put into action right away. With all of this info, right on the page, easily skimmable, you help your listeners so much more. And that's what builds loyal fans!4. Resource ListI mentioned resource links above, but it's great to include a list of the main resources, and links, right at the start or the end of the blog section so that links are all nicely collated and easily found. This is one of the biggest uses of shownotes for existing subscribers – to pop in and find out exactly what “That amazing app he mentioned…” was, and to nip over there.Including great resources links, every time, will encourage repeat visits to your shownotes.Other Elements, Like Video?You can go further than this, turning your podcast show notes into a massive fan-building, conversion-creating multi-media experience. Read about that full content stacking approach here. If you can put the time into this, it can be a game-changer for your business.Keeping Show Notes Short: Sacrifice Content for Sustainability?Some people just can't find the time to do full blog-post style show notes every week. So, an alternative is to keep 'em shorter and forget about the search engine benefits. Just focus on giving value to your existing subscribers.In this case, just do the 50-word intro paragraph or bullet points, and then some resource links and related description. You could even dispense with the descriptions altogether, and just list links. If you can, the timecode summary is super-useful, even if you just find 2 or 3 of the big highlights to allow your visitors to skip through.Comparing the two, the long blog-post style format offers a lot more value in terms of content marketing. The show notes, acting like blog articles, start to gain traffic, since they're much more likely to be found and indexed well in the search results. On the other hand, there's no point getting that extra value if it's unsustainable.If the effort of full-blog show notes stops you podcasting altogether, then you get absolutely no benefit at all. In that case, it's better to do less and get the show out regularly. This is a balance between time and total benefit.I think it can depend a lot on the context, particularly whether the podcasting website is brand new, or whether the podcast is being added to an existing website. In the case of a brand new podcasting website, the show notes are even more worth investing time into as they'll start to build out the written content and give the site some meat. Adding very thin podcast show notes pages to an already thin website is unlikely to help the site gain any type of authority.In contrast, a well-established site can stand to gain a few thin pages and you can spend time on your wider blogging instead for that content benefit. On the other hand, if you tie your blogging and podcasting efforts together through a content stacking approach, I'd argue that you can do both for more benefit and less effort in the long run!Can you use a Transcription as your Podcast Shownotes?Here's a third possibility. If you're really short of time, it might be worth considering transcriptions. You can pay around $1 per minute to have a full transcription done of any show. If you're doing quite short, focused episodes, these transcriptions can be very useful and readable for your listeners. As a bonus, they provide nice, long, meaty content for the site with little extra time effort. Just a bit of cost.If you did that, you'd only have to write a 50-word intro para yourself, then add the transcription after the player. You can go through the transcription and add links where appropriate as well, to make sure the listener can find the relevant resources. Although, in this case, a collated resource link list may be useful so the reader doesn't have to trawl a long transcription.On the downside, the spoken word often doesn't translate well into a written form. Unedited transcriptions can often be long, rambling and made up of terrible English. It's surprising how often we don't speak in complete or correct sentences! In this case, a transcription might not offer much value.It depends on your speaking style, though, and how you present. Solo shows tend to provide more useful transcriptions, while a conversation can just look like a confusing mess on paper. It's an approach worth trying, but it won't work for everyone!Hiring a Podcast Show Notes WriterIf you don't have the time, or simply don't want to do your own podcast show notes, then you might want to outsource them altogether. If that's the case, then we recommend mediasips or mabendroth15 on Fiverr. You can get thorough and excellent show notes there from as little as $13.Our Fiverr links are affiliates, but these are shownote writing services we've used ourselves, and were really happy with the results. That's why we recommend them!Need More Help?If you're keen to master shownote writing yourself, check out The Podcast Host Academy. There you can download The Podcast Show Notes Cookbook – your ultimate guide to writing podcast show notes of all kinds.

In this episode of The Pulse Podcast, Vivien interviews Casey Means, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Levels Health. Levels is a metabolic health company that empowers individuals to radically optimize their health and wellbeing by providing real-time continuous glucose biofeedback coupled with machine learning driven insights to inform personalized diet and lifestyle choices. We discuss the founding journey of Levels, the science of metabolic health, and advice for first-time healthcare entrepreneurs. Levels recently raised $12M of seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz and angel investors including Marc Randolph (co-founder and first CEO of Netflix), Dick Costolo (former CEO of Twitter), Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch) and Matt Dellavedova (NBA player on Cleveland Cavaliers).

“Gary Vaynerchuk has seen the future of marketing. The Thank You Economy shows how it's built on both the time-honored techniques of listening to and appreciating customers and newer services like Twitter that allow you to engage directly with customers at unprecedented scale and speed. The book, like Gary, is also a lot of fun and full of passion.” —Dick Costolo, former CEO, Twitter I accept that Gary Vaynerchuk (aka Gary Vee) is not everyone's cup of tea. However, this is a very good book. This reading comes from the chapter "How Everything has Changed Except Human Nature" Buy the book from your local bookshop or at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thank-You-Economy-Gary-Vaynerchuk

A week before the 2020 US Presidential election, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins us to tell the story of a company that has impacted all of our lives (political and otherwise) like none other. While it's easy to forget now, a very viable alternate history exists where it's Twitter, not Facebook, who owns Instagram, and Vine, not TikTok, that's the global platform for mobile video. We dive into it all on this episode — and of course while we had Dick, we also had to discuss his controversial recent deleted tweet. If you want more more Acquired and the tools + resources to become the best founder, operator or investor you can be, join our LP Program for access to our LP Show, the LP community on Slack and Zoom, and our live Book Club discussions with top authors. Join here at: https://acquired.fm/lp/ New! We're codifying our own Playbook notes and takeaways from each episode, and posting them here in the show notes and on our website. You can read them below or at: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/twitter-with-dick-costolo Sponsors: Thanks to Tiny for being our presenting sponsor for all of Acquired Season 7. Tiny is building the "Berkshire Hathaway of the internet" — if you own a wonderful internet business that you want to sell, or know someone who does, you should get in touch with them. Unlike traditional buyers, they commit to quick, simple diligence, a 30-day or less process, and will leave your business to do its thing for the long term. You can learn more about Tiny here: http://tinycapital.com Thank you as well to Bamboo Growth and to Perkins Coie. You can learn more about them at: https://growwithbamboo.com https://www.perkinscoie.com/ Playbook Themes from this Episode: Sometimes early advantages matter. A lot. In a network economy industry (like social media), it's almost impossible to chase down someone with an established lead. The only way you can hope to compete is by changing the game. And even that is a long shot. Once Facebook — and then Instagram within Facebook — had established a meaningful active user lead over Twitter, there was no "down the middle" play Twitter could run to catch up. Twitter recognized this and attempted all sorts of orthogonal strategies: video (Vine), live (Periscope), music (Twitter Music), syndication (Moments), exclusive content (the NFL deal). In each case either Facebook was able to copy and co-opt the innovation, or the attempt simply failed. Sometimes reach matters. A lot. If you're operating in a network economy, your service MUST deliver a first-class experience on every platform that matters. Vine launched on iOS and immediately went to #1 in the App Store. But they didn't get a good Android experience out fast enough, which fractured the social graph that users could share across. Instagram was able to respond aggressively with a first-class video experience across both iOS and Android before Vine could stop the bleeding — and the rest is history. Network Resiliency. Some network graphs are more inherently defensible than others. How easy it is to "rehydrate" your network somewhere else should drive how closely you guard it. Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp all have relatively low defensible networks — if you were to exfiltrate their graphs, you could recreate their value quickly. This is why all of those companies / products significantly restrict connection exporting, and also why they were able to bootstrap quickly in the early days by importing users' address books. By contrast, the Twitter graph is about interest, not social connections. Even if you exfiltrated all its connections, it'd be very difficult to recreate Twitter (people have tried). This dynamic made it more difficult for Twitter to scale quickly, but also has made it more resilient over time. The core Twitter product is just as robust — if not more — today than it was in 2010... the same can't be said for the blue Facebook product, which has bled out to Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Snap, iMessage, etc. Balancing forest fires and forestry management. As a leader of a rapidly growing organization, you face two types of challenges: "forest fires" (this crazy thing just happened and we need to respond), and "forestry management" (this set of crazy things will keep happening until we figure out a solution that scales). You need a different mental state to approach each, and balancing between the two is incredibly difficult when you're see-sawing back and forth every day. Links: Ashish Goel at Stanford: https://web.stanford.edu/~ashishg/twitter.html Dick and Adam's new firm, 01 Advisors: https://01a.com/ Carve Outs: Vote! https://www.vote.org

Jeff Deist joins David Gornoski to discuss some important upcoming events. Deist addresses the absence of the trillion-dollar deficit and other topics not addressed in the debate. Is there a mass clamoring for the COVID economic shutdowns? What does Dick Costolo's tweet on executing business leaders reveal about the mindset of Big Tech barons? Who are the Spanish scholastics and how have they influenced the Austrian school of economics? Listen to the full episode to find out. Find more from David Gornoski on A Neighbor's Choice.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced bars, theaters, and outdoor venues could re-open -- but under a formula that the bar industry says makes it impossible to actually do so. Plus, the former CEO of Twitter says he'll provide video commentary when capitalists are lined up & shot during the Revolution. Meanwhile, it seems like a lot of people missed the larger point being made in that NY Times' story on President Trump's tax returns. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/petekalinershow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Get exclusive content here!: https://thepetekalinershow.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mises Institute's Jeff Deist joins David Gornoski to discuss some important upcoming events. Deist addresses the absence of the trillion-dollar deficit and other topics not addressed in the debate. Is there a mass clamoring for the COVID economic shutdowns? What does Dick Costolo's tweet on executing business leaders reveal about the mindset of Big Tech barons? Who are the Spanish scholastics and how have they influenced the Austrian school of economics? Listen to the full episode to find out. Email A Neighbor's Choice with a guest suggestion, story tip or question at hello@aneighborschoice.com Visit the A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborschoice.com

In this best-of episode originally published in January 2018, writer and comedian Sarah Cooper talks with Kara Swisher and Dick Costolo about why she left a career in the tech industry to become a stand-up comic. Cooper has made tech a central part of her comedy and has written a book based in part on her time at Yahoo and Google called 100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings. The group debates whether people who work in tech are funny (on purpose) and whether depictions of them in popular culture, on shows like HBO’s Silicon Valley or CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, hit their mark. Featuring: Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr), comedian Hosts: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large Dick Costolo (@dickc), former CEO, Twitter More to explore: On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media. On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next. And on Season 1 of Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. On Season 2, Peter Kafka and Rani Molla examined "the Netflix effect." About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Electric, the platform that puts the IT department in the cloud, has today announced new funding following a continuation of its Series B earlier this year. Dick Costolo and Adam Bain (01 Advisors) and the Slack Fund participated in the $7 million capital infusion. 01 Advisors put up the majority of the financing ($6 million) […]

Everybody puts their boots on the same way.  And what that means is, it doesn't matter your title here.  It could be the people on our leadership team, Bill and I, or it could be the person coming in their first day on the job on the assembly line...everyone is the same. And everyone is going to be treated the same. And it goes back to that first [value], we work until it's done. If there are boxes that need to go out the door, or we need to make more barbells, you're going to see the top leadership down going out and helping right now. We did get overrun before we could hire some people- we have everyone in our office right now, they're doing shifts on our production floor. And that's really what this is all about, and you see people getting experiences that you normally wouldn't have. To go out and build a barbell, and maybe you're in our IT department, a lot of places you wouldn't have that opportunity, but we live by that standard. Everybody puts their boots on the same way.” - Caity Henniger Caity Henniger has been a lifelong athlete.  In high school she led her basketball team to victory in 91 out of 102 games, was voted MVP of the 1998 Junior Olympic AAU circuit, and was a two-time state champion in both shot put and discus.  She went on to play collegiate ball at Ohio State where she averaged 15.4 points per game and set the school single-season record for three-pointers, with 106, earning her the Edward S. Steitz Award as the nation's best three-point shooter.  In 2005, Caity joined the WNBA as a player for the Charlotte Sting. After multiple leg surgeries led Caity to retire from basketball, she was drawn to the competitive side of CrossFit.  In 2008,  with just a few months of CrossFit experience, she took first place at the 2008 CrossFit Games.  Caity would go on to become a fixture in the production side of the Games, working as an ESPN commentator and as a representative of Rogue Fitness. Shortly after Caity's 2008 CrossFit Games victory, she began playing a huge role in helping Rogue Fitness grow from a small e-commerce site to a major powerhouse in the fitness equipment industry.  With a focus on manufacturing quality, American-made products from local sources, Rogue now employs over 900 people at their massive 600,000 square foot campus in Columbus, Ohio. Recently, when Ohio issued a stay-at-home order in response to COVID-19, Rogue quickly pivoted their manufacturing processes to make Personal Protective Equipment for healthcare workers, a decision that is not only helping to keep healthcare workers safe, but is also helping to keep their local community employed. I had to opportunity to sit down with Caity to learn more about the mission and values Rogue was founded on, and how those principles are driving their business during this time of uncertainty.  We chatted about her days as a competitor,  how she balances her role as an executive with her own personal health,  and we were even able to steal a few minutes from Rogue's Director of Product Development, Ahmik Jones, to learn more about the processes behind shifting gears from manufacturing fitness equipment to manufacturing PPE.     In this episode we discuss: Caity's athletic background The history behind Rogue Fitness and their partnership with the CrossFit Games What led Rogue to branch out into manufacturing equipment for other sports Rogue's new facility and the Industrial Revolution 2.0 Rogue's three core values and how they implement them The story behind Don't Weaken Rogue's early response to COVID-19 How Rogue came to have a doctor as their Director of Product Development How Rogue made the decision to manufacture PPE for healthcare workers, and what the development process has been like Measures Rogue has taken encourage employees to embrace fitness and the positive impact they've seen as a result How Caity manages her time to allow for her own workouts and downtime away from work The mentors who helped Caity grow into a strong leader What a typical day looks like for Caity Stand-out moments where Caity has felt especially proud of the work Rogue is doing Three things that Caity does on a regular basis that have the biggest positive impact on her health One thing she thinks could have a big impact on her health but she has a hard time implementing What a healthy life looks like to Caity     You can follow Caity on Instagram and Twitter. You can follow Rogue Fitness on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Links: 2008 CrossFit Games: The Final, Final Results The 2008 CrossFit Games On Her Terms: Caity Matter Henniger Semper Fit Rogue Iron Game Rogue Legends Rogue 2016 - 10 Years Strong The Index Rogue Fitness COVID-19 Response Rogue Face Shield Design Related episodes: Ep 51 - Dick Costolo on Taking Risks and Finding Fitness Ep 90 - CrossFit Games GM Justin Bergh: The Man Behind the Magic Ep 101 - Dr. Joe Janesz on Building a Champion Mindset If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating. I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments below and on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health every other Tuesday. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. We recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.   This post was originally published on May 11, 2020.

This episode features one of today’s top technology leaders Dick Costolo.    Dick is an investor, currently through his fund 01 Advisors, and advises countless CEOs, Governors, and world leaders, as one of the most sought after minds in tech.    He was the CEO of Twitter from 2011 to 2015, took them through IPO, and he also advised the show Silicon Valley on HBO. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Today we're going to celebrate the explosion and soap-opera-esque management of Twitter. As with many things, it started with an idea. Some people get one idea. Some of these Twitter founders got multiple ideas, which is one of the more impressive parts of this story. And the story of Twitter goes back to 1999. Evan Williams created a tool that gave “push-button publishing for the people.” That tool was called blogger.com and ignited a fire in people publishing articles about whatever they were thinking or feeling or working on or doing. Today, we just call it blogging. The service jumped in use and Evan sold the company to Google, where he worked for a bit and then left in 2004 in search of a new opportunity. Seeing the rise of podcasting, Williams founded another company called Odeo, to build a tool for podcasters. They worked away at that, being joined by Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Crystal Taylor, Florian Weber, Blaine Cook, Ray McClure, Rim Roberts, Rabble, Dom, @Jeremy and others. And some investors of course. Apple added podcasts to iTunes and they knew they had to pivot. They'd had these full day sessions brainstorming new ideas. Evan was thinking more and more about this whole incubator kind of thing. Noah was going through a divorce and one night he and Jack Dorsey were going through some ideas for new pivots or companies. Jack had just been turned on to text messaging and mentioned this one idea about sharing texts to groups. The company was young and full of raver kids at the time and the thought was you could share where you are and what you were doing. Noah thought you could share your feelings as well. Since it was through text, you had a maximum 140 characters. It started as a side project. Jack and Florian Webber built a prototype. It slowly grew into a real product. They sold the remaining assets of Odeo and Twitter and was finally spun off into its own company in 2007. Noah was the first CEO. But he was ousted in 2007 when Jack Dorsey took over. They grew slowly during the year but jumped into the limelight at South By Southwest, taking home the Web Award. I joined Twitter in October of 2007. To be honest, I didn't really get it yet. But they started to grow. And rapidly. They were becoming a news source. People were tweeting to their friends. They added the @ symbol to mention people in posts. They added the ability to retweet, or repost a tweet from someone else. And of course hashtags. Servers crashed all the time. The developers worked on anything they wanted. And after a time, the board of Twitter, which primarily consisted of investors, got tired of the company not being run well and outside Jack in 2008, letting Evan run the company. And I do like to think of the history of Twitter in stages. Noah was the incubator. He and Jack worked hard and provided a vision. Noah came up with the name, Jack helped code the site and keep it on track. Once Noah was gone they were a cool hacker collective that went into hyper growth. There wasn't a ton of structure and the company reflected the way people used the service, a bit chaotic. But with Evan in, the hyper growth accelerated. Twitter added lists in 2009, allowing you to see updates from people you weren't following. They were still growing fast. By 2010 there were 50 million tweets a day. Months later there were 65 million. And Jack Dorsey, while no longer at Twitter, was the media darling face of Twitter. He would found Square that year. And Square would make a dent in the multi-verse by allowing pretty much anyone to take a credit card using their phone, pretty much any time. That would indirectly lead to coffee shops, yoga studios, and any number of kinds of businesses popping up all over the world. They bought an app called Tweetie which became the Twitter app many of us use today. But servers could still crash. There was still no revenue. So Evan brought in Dick Costolo, founder of feedburner, to become the Chief Operating Officer. Dick would be named CEO. Dorsey, fuming ever since his ousting, had been behind the switch. This is where Twitter kinda' grew up. Under Dick the site got stable finally. The users continued to grow. They started to make money. Lots of money. By 2011 they added URL shortening using the t.co domain because many of us would use a URL shortening service to conserve characters. Twitter would continue to grow and go public in 2013. By then, they'd had offers to buy equity from musicians, actors, sports stars, and even former Vice Presidents. And Twitter would continue to grow. Jack Dorsey would lead Square to an IPO in 2015. Obama would send his first tweet that same year. Shortly afterwards, Dick stepped down as the CEO of Twitter and Jack came back. Grand plans work out I suppose. Usually people don't get back together after the breakup. But Jack did. In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. While Obama had used Twitter, Trump took it to a whole new level, announcing public policy there sometimes before other politicians knew. And this is where Twitter just gets silly. Hundreds of millions of people log on and argue. Not my thing. I mostly just post links to these episodes these days. Jack Dorsey is now the CEO of both Square and Twitter. He catches flack for it every now and then - but it's mostly working. He co-founded two great companies and he likely doesn't want to risk losing control of either. Evan Williams founded Medium in 2012, another blogging service. Blogging, micro-blogging, then back to blogging. He has had three great companies he co-founded. And continues helping startups. Biz Stone, often the heart of twitter would found Jelly, which was sold to Pinterest. The fourth co-founder, Noah Glass, took some time away from startups. His part in the founding of Twitter was often under-estimated. But today, he's the CEO of olo.com and serves on the board of a number of non-profits. The post-PC era, the social media era, the instant everything era. Twitter symbolizes all of it, kicked off when Jack sent the first message on March 21, 2006, 9:50 p.m. It read, "just setting up my twttr.". From a rag-tag group of kids who went to clubs to a multi-billion dollar social media behemoth, they also show the growth stages of network effect companies. The incubation period led by a passionate Noah. The release and rise period full of doing everything it takes and people working 20 hour days symbolized by the Jack part 1. The meteoric rise and beginnings of getting their ducks in order tenure of Evan. The growing up phase where they got profitable and stable with Dick. And then the Steve Jobs-esque reinvention of Jack and his return, slowing growth and reducing risk. The founders all felt like Twitter was theirs. And it was. A lot of founders think they're going to change the world. And some actually do. And for the effort they put into putting a dent in the universe, we thank them. And you dear listeners, we think you too, for giving us the opportunity to share these stories of betrayal and shame and rebirth. We are so lucky to have you. Have a great day!

Bill Campbell created billions of dollars of value in Silicon Valley as head of marketing and board director for Apple Inc. and CEO for Intuit and GO Corporation. But, he also created trillions of dollars of shareholder value by coaching Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Sundar Pichai at Google, Steve Jobs at Apple, Brad Smith at Intuit, Jeff Bezos at Amazon, John Donahoe at eBay, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, Dick Costolo at Twitter, and Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook. This episode reviews the book, The Trillion Dollar Coach, and explains how he worked his magic.

Join us as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman sits down with former Executive Chairman of Alphabet and former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former Senior Vice President and Advisor to Alphabet CEO, Larry Page, to discuss insights from their new book, “Trillion Dollar Coach.” From Steve Jobs and Dick Costolo to Larry Page and Sundar Pichai, several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley will gladly credit much of their success to one name you’ve probably never heard of and who’s no longer with us – Bill Campbell. Considering that Bill helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value, his leadership method doesn’t just deserve our recognition, but could result in an extraordinary return on investment of your time if you learn it.  “Trillion Dollar Coach” shares behind-the-scenes business wisdom from Bill Campbell, Silicon Valley’s preeminent executive coach. Although he was perhaps the greatest executive coach of all time, Bill shunned the spotlight and rarely gave interviews. The authors hope that by open sourcing his principles and sharing stories of how they have worked for others, they can help people at all levels become more effective managers and leaders.  

Lyric, a platform for folks who struggle to decide between a hotel and an Airbnb, has today announced the close of a $160 million Series B financing led by none other than Airbnb . Other investors who participated in the round include Tishman Speyer, RXR Realty, Obvious Ventures, SineWave, Dick Costolo, Adam Bain, as well as existing investors Barry Sternlicht, NEA, SignalFire, FifthWall and Tusk Ventures. Lyric is a hospitality platform for business travelers.

Dick Costolo (@dickc), former CEO of Twitter, joins Erik and co-host Jayni Shah (@shahjayni), in this special live episode. Dick explains why is focusing on travel and tells some stories from a recent trip to Tanzania where he met with a hunter-gatherer tribe. He recounts what it was like trying to make it as a comic in Chicago alongside Steve Carrell and Tina Fey, and how the lessons he learned from improv apply to being a CEO.He discusses polarization on social media, how it might be ameliorated, and regales us with stories from his days at Twitter. He also talks about his theory of why digital fitness apps are not compatible with human nature, why you should use more exclamation marks in emails, and some of the most common mistakes that he sees the entrepreneurs he mentors making.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Colin Campbell is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Dick Costolo (@dickc), former CEO of Twitter, joins Erik and co-host Jayni Shah (@shahjayni), in this special live episode. Dick explains why is focusing on travel and tells some stories from a recent trip to Tanzania where he met with a hunter-gatherer tribe. He recounts what it was like trying to make it as a comic in Chicago alongside Steve Carrell and Tina Fey, and how the lessons he learned from improv apply to being a CEO.He discusses polarization on social media, how it might be ameliorated, and regales us with stories from his days at Twitter. He also talks about his theory of why digital fitness apps are not compatible with human nature, why you should use more exclamation marks in emails, and some of the most common mistakes that he sees the entrepreneurs he mentors making.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Colin Campbell is our audio engineer and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Pete Leibman, leadership expert and speaker, is the author of the upcoming book Work Stronger: Habits for More Energy, Less Stress and Higher Performance at Work (Skyhorse Publishing, July 31, 2018)Work Stronger provides a step-by-step, science-based approach for increasing your energy, decreasing your stress, and taking your performance to a higher level. This book also features practical tips and powerful insights from private interviews that Leibman conducted with more than twenty-five prominent leaders. The group includes Chip Bergh, the president and CEO of Levi Strauss Co., Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, and Janine Allis, an investor on Shark Tank. Pete's book's web site is WorkStronger.com, and his company web site is WorkStrongerConsulting.com. You can be able to contact him by email at Pete@StrongerHabits.com. 

In the early 1990s, Dick Costolo spent several years in Chicago trying to make it in comedy. When that didn't pan out, he put his computer science degree to use. The post Dick Costolo, Former Twitter CEO appeared first on Prokit.

Leadership is not just about management, but about passion, a bit of humor, and resilience. General partner Peter Levine and Dick Costolo (entrepreneur, former CEO of Twitter, and erstwhile comedian) share their thoughts on the topic in this episode of the a16z Podcast -- based on a conversation recorded as part of the BreakLine program (hosted at Andreessen Horowitz) preparing military veterans transitioning into tech careers. Among other things, Costolo shares what running Twitter was like pre-IPO and after, as well as what it’s like to suddenly find yourself thrust onto the world stage; the role of improv and imagery in leadership; and the difference between preventing mistakes from happening... and correcting them as quickly as you can when they do happen.

Dick Costolo, Former CEO of Twitter says this about Jeff Hyman's book Recruit Rockstars....The 10 Step Playbook to Find The Winners and Ignite Your Business, "I read this book in one weekend, and I loved it. Everybody claims they want A-players, but Jeff and his book help you understand why B-players are more damaging to your company than you expect."My chat with Jeff will validate Dick Costolo's comment and you'll learn much more on the Business Builders Show with Marty Wolff on www.c-suiteradio.comListen carefully for the distinction between a "job description" and a "job invitation". You can learn more about Jeff Hyman by connecting with him on Linkedin and at www.recruitrockstars.com. Thanks for listening to this edition to the Business Builders Show with Marty Wolff. You can find all our shows and many other fine shows at www.c-suiteradio.com.Call or text me your comments and questions at 570 815 1626 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rob Black talks about Jerome Powell, Dick Costolo, smart speakers, Jamie Dimon, and chats with CFP Chad Burton about inflation, interest rats, bonds, 401k plans, and long term care insurance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dick Costolo is the Chief Executive and co-founder of Chorus, a startup that is reimagining the path to personal fitness. Dick is also a Mentor @ Index Ventures, one of the world's leading venture funds, which he joined in 2016. Costolo was most recently Chief Executive of Twitter from 2010 to 2015, where was at the forefront for their hypergrowth onto the main stage of tech. Prior to joining Twitter, Dick co-founded and ran three startups, including FeedBurner, which sold to Google in 2007. The former improv comedian has been a consultant on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” and currently sits on the boards of Patreon and IfOnly. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Dick made his way from Improv Comedian to founding a startup acquired by Google and then becoming CEO of Twitter? 2.) Why does Dick believe that starting a company is like an improv stage? What were Dick's biggest personal learnings from his drama career that he has applied to being a better leader today? 3.) Having given up the comedy dream for tech, how does Dick balance the entrepreneurial unwavering vision with a realism of when things are not working? What is the inflection point? 4.) What was the biggest challenge over the 5 years in scaling Twitter? What strategies did Dick utilise to combat this? How does Dick think about creating a culture of accountability without fear? How does this change the ownership of decisions? 5.) What is Dick's biggest superpower and super weakness? Why must all entrepreneurs have to have a fundamental ability to compartmentalize? In terms of temperament, what were Dick's biggest lessons from watching Youtube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, operate? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Dick’s Fave Book: Creativity Inc. As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Dick on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Cooley are the global law firm built around startups and venture capital.  Since forming the first venture fund in Silicon Valley, Cooley has formed more venture capital funds than any other law firm in the world, with 50+ years working with VCs. They help VCs form and manage funds, make investments and handle the myriad issues that arise through a fund’s lifetime. So to learn more about the #1 most active law firm representing VC-backed companies going public. Head over to cooley.com and also at cooleygo.com. Zoom, fastest growing video and web conferencing service, providing one consistent enterprise experience that allows you to engage in an array of activities including video meetings and webinars, collaboration-enabled conference rooms, and persistent chat all in one easy platform. Plus, it is the easiest solution to manage, scale, and use, and has the most straightforward, affordable pricing. Don’t take our word for it. Zoom is the top rated conferencing app across various user review sites including G2Crowd and Trust Radius. And you can sign up for a free account (not a trial!). Just visit Zoom.us.

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Shobe is a father of 3 boys, a serial entrepreneur, a private pilot and a rad dad, who came to the podcast to talk about startups and what it takes to have a happy family while you are busy building a rocket ship. Matt was previously a cofounder of FeedBurner which he and Dick Costolo (former CEO of Twitter) sold to Google for north of $100 million dollars. Now he is a Chief Product Office at Mty.AI, a company that is supplying self-driving data to a majority of the automakers. On this episode we discuss how to manage family a life without going crazy, how to get the most out of your commute, and startup life with a newborn child. If you like this and want to hear more, please follow me on twitter @kirillzubovsky or just follow the show's twitter @RadDadShow. See you around!

Nick Candito. He is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the company called Progressly, championing the company’s mission towards becoming the new standard for how teams find and execute business processes. He previously served as Relate IQ’s head of user success and business operations which was acquired by Salesforce, the first automatic and intelligent CRM solution. Nick founded Progressly to address how large industries operate, innovate and share around core business processes. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek What CEO do you follow? – Jeff Weiner, Satya Nadella, Dick Costolo, Jeff Bezos Favorite online tool? — Hubspot tools for email, Pocket How many hours of sleep do you get?— less than 8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – be patient, ask more questions and optimize by being around the best people Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:07 – Nathan introduces Nick to the show 01:49 – Nick thinks Salesforce will win the CRM space, as well as Microsoft and LinkedIn 02:25 – Nick is impressed by Base CRM and Social Capital 02:57 – Nick stumbled into tech as he was originally a finance major 03:15 – He started by joining a small software team building technology for the pharmaceutical industry and learned about the manual system of the tech industry 04:04 – Nick then joined Crimson Hexagon and he learned how to take a company to the next level using tools like Salesforce 04:38 – With RelateIQ, Nick learned how to create a sales system of engagement 05:18 – Nick thinks the best founding duo he has ever encountered is Adam Evans and Steve Loughlin 06:29 – Progressly is the operational system of records with a focus on the Fortune 1000 CROs or contract research organizations 07:24 – The company has a mobile first strategy (people who are working outside of office) 08:01 – Progressly works with a variety of companies; big companies that include Shell Oil and those in the mid-market segment 08:25 – The highest price is $49 per user, with the IT Group of Chevron they have 60,000 employees within the company 09:31 – The company was founded in 2014 and started to fundraise aggressively in 2015; they were able to raise $10 million in the seed, series A and after 10:22 – They had a very specific profile for their seed round and focused on a large institutional investor, a micro VC, and some high value angels—it played out the way they planned 11:17 – They are looking at getting a positive net churn and at how they can accelerate the growth of their accounts; for example, from site-wide deployment to regional deployment to enterprise deployment 13:28 – They are now in the hundreds in terms of customers; the energy and utilities sector has a high network effect 14:05 – Nathan just interviewed Geoff Moore who said the more specific or weirder the sector, the better 15:24 – The utility metric depends on what the user is running on operationally 16:03 – The active number of seats are in the thousands 16:46 – The first year revenue was pretty low because they did a paid pilot offering 17:10 – They were looking into the pilot to use case expansion 17:55 – They want to have a 100% growth, year over year 18:10 – It is easier to drive a high growth rate rather than have customers who can refer you to others 19:41 – Nick will celebrate when he gets to $5 million in ARR or accounting rate of return 20:40 – Currently, they are doing less than 300 grand per month 21:16 – Having an enterprise cycle in your business is slower upfront, but has the ability to experience significant growth in the long run 21:31 – They have 30 employees with some in product design and engineering 22:31 – The payback period is significantly lower than 12 months 24:38 – The Famous Five 3 Key Points: Target a specific group for your customer base to increase the chances of referrals. An enterprise account may prove to be slow at first, but it will pay off in the long run. Ask your customers to promote your business to other people. Resources Mentioned: The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences GetLatka - Database of all B2B SaaS companies who have been on my show including their revenue, CAC, churn, ARPU and more Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Hotjar – Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you’re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

Joseph Zwillinger is the Founder @ Allbirds, the startup that makes the world's most comfortable shoes check this out, made out of wool. They have funding from the likes of Maveron, Lerer Hippeau and Slow Ventures and an army of loyal fans that includes Larry Paige, Ben Horowitz, Mary Meeker and Dick Costolo. Prior to co-founding Allbirds, Joey enjoyed a range of careers from investment banking with Goldman Sachs to venture capital with Industry Ventures to working at next generation food and nutrition company, TerraVia. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Joey made his way from investment banker to venture capitalist to Founder @ Allbirds, Silicon Valley's hottest brand? 2.) How does Joey view the core tenets to creating a successful brand? Why must brands today go further to more of a movement? How can companies look to create movements within their customer base? 3.) How does Joey assess the effects of Amazon on retail? How does Joey evaluate the economic ramifications of Amazon's flea market approach on the brands behind the products? Why does Joey want Allbirds to stay far away from Amazon? 4.) How does Joey look to prioritize what he and Allbirds focus on? What is the one core metric that guides all their decisions and behavior? How is this applicable to every company of all stage and sector? 5.) Why does Joey think that not enough VCs are people orientated? How does Josh assess the VC class of today? What does he look for when deciding which investors to choose? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Joey’s Fave Book: Man's Search For Meaning Joey’s Fave Blog: First Round Review, Dan Primack As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Pendo delivers the only complete platform that helps companies create great products. The Pendo Product Experience Platform enables product teams to understand product usage, collect user feedback, measure NPS, assist users, and promote new features in-app - all without requiring any engineering resources. This unique combination of capabilities helps companies improve customer satisfaction, reduce churn, and increase revenue. Pendo is the proven choice of Salesforce, Cisco, Optimizely Citrix, BMC and many more leading companies. Start a free trial at http://go.pendo.io/harry Treehouse is an online school where you can learn how to build websites and apps. Their course library has thousands of hours of content, where you can learn all sorts of topics, including Javascript, iOS, Android and more.  With high-quality video instruction from real industry experts teaching you all you need to know, and quizzes and code challenges keep you engaged and on track. Learn on your own schedule and go from beginner to pro. Go to teamtreehouse.com to start your free trial.

Whether you’re in sales, service, or management, you should always start with listening. In this episode of Calls, Chris breaks down Dick Costolo’s “LDC” acronym to discuss why beating around the bush is counterproductive, while communication is key.

Dick Costolo started his career as an improv comedian, sharing the stage with Steve Carell, and ended up in Silicon Valley running Twitter. He discusses what it's like to bomb on stage in front of 2,000 people, how stressful it is being the CEO of a public company, and if he could have stopped Donald Trump rise to power on a social media rocket ship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Have you ever received praise that made it feel like you were just getting a pat on the head? Or have you ever given someone praise because you wanted them to like you? This episode is for you! This week on the Radical Candor podcast: Ruinous Empathy and praise, with special guest, Dick Costolo!

David Hornik has a reputation in venture as one of the nicest and sharpest investors out there. He received Deloitte’s 2013 Venture Capitalist of the Year award and has been honored by Forbes Magazine as a member of its Midas List of top Venture Capitalists. This conversation was fun and David gave a lot of interesting insight. Some of our favorite moments included: (1) what he thinks of the current state of venture (11:05), (2) his adamant belief that we are not in a bubble, though things are overheated and overfunded (17:05), (3) the importance of making others successful and being generous (24:01), and (4) focusing on a happy life, not a successful career (30:10). David colored a lot of these insights via personal anecdotes of times with Jerry Yang, DJ Patil, Dick Costolo, Paul Graham, Reid Hoffman, Travis Kalanick and others.

On this special bonus episode of Recode Decode, we look back at our past guests' most insightful comments about diversity in tech and media. Interviewees including Chamath Palihapitiya, Samantha Bee and Dick Costolo explain why discrimination based on sex, age and ethnicity are so common, and what might be done to fix the problem. You can find the full interviews excerpted in this show at Recode.net/Podcasts or in the podcast feeds for Recode Decode and Recode Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

¿Son las votaciones inseguras porque usan tecnología? Esta semana hablamos de voto electrónico, de lo que significa usar tecnología para mejorar los procesos democrácticos y de los riesgos de poner la tecnología antes de la democracia. Pre Show: Silicon Valley Crisis habitacional HBO: Silicon Valley Uncanny Silicon Valley Mike Judge Next Starring Role for Dick Costolo: […] 14: Voto electrónico fue publicado en Control de Cambios.

Spencer Rascoff is on the podcast this week.  He’s an extremely talented entrepreneur who spent the majority of his career creating two big companies.  The first was Hotwire, the first is Hotwire, which he started at the young age of 24.  The second one was Zillow, the place where you go to find a home and figure out how much your neighbor’s home is worth.  Spencer led Zillow through its IPO and 11 acquisitions.  He also managed both of these companies through some pretty dark days, including the latest recession.  He was named one of the 20 most powerful CEO’s under the age of 40 by Forbes and he’s the host of his own podcast “Office Hours.” There he talks shop with other CEO’s like Dick Costolo, formerly of Twitter.  Spencer packs quite a punch in this interview and you are going to get a ton of insight from him.  We are happy to announce that this week’s episode is brought to you by MasterCard Labs.  Learn how this incredible technology firm is helping companies across the globe reach new potential through innovation and collaboration. 

Listen. Decide. Communicate. These three steps form Dick Costolo's model for open communication and honesty in the workplace. It's a lesson he instilled as CEO of Twitter and one that he carries with him as he builds his new company's culture from scratch. In this episode, Costolo shares more about his management style, the invaluable experience gained from repeat entrepreneurship and the characteristics that make teams truly great.

The 52-year-old former Twitter CEO, who serves as a consultant on HBO's hit comedy series, talks about his days in Chicago's Second City comedy troupe ("Steve Carell and I were in the same group"), the highs and lows of his time running one of the world's leading social networks and how he came to be a part of Mike Judge and Alec Berg's writers' room.

Some of the best management books are actually military books, argues Ben Horowitz. There's just a certain mental toughness and focus that that experience gives you, adds Dick Costolo based on his observations. So how then do you build trust on a team in a company, when it's not (literally) life or death as it is in the military? When giving someone a public "object lesson" -- the equivalent of Sun Tzu's chopping someone's head off -- could mean losing talent ... or being more tyrant than leader? How do you tell the difference? This conversation -- between Horowitz and Costolo (entrepreneur, former CEO of Twitter, comedian and consultant on the HBO show "Silicon Valley") -- took place before a group of 25 veterans who participated in the Breakline education and hiring program (one week of which was hosted at Andreessen Horowitz) for veterans shifting into careers in the tech industry.

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sits down with Kara Swisher to talk about what he's doing next, what he thinks of Twitter's future under Jack Dorsey and why men often fail to "do diversity." Later, Lauren Goode wheels in to Kara's desk to answer readers' questions about "hoverboards." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Feld is one of the world's leading VCs having Co-Founded Foundry Group, Brad has made investments in the likes of Zynga, Makerbot and Fitbit, just to name a few. Brad is also Co-Founder of Techstars, one of the world's most prominent startup accelerators, whose portfolio companies have raised over $1.3bn in funding.   If that wasn't enough Brad is also a best selling author having co-athoured Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC, alongside Dick Costolo and Startup Communities: Building An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your Community. In addition to his investing and writing, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and currently is chair of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and co-chair of Startup Colorado. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs Feld Thoughts, Startup Revolution, and Ask the VC. In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Brad made his move from entrepreneurship to VC and later co-founding, The Foundry Group. 2.) Does Brad agree with the view that it is important for entrepreneurs to fail? 3.) Why did Brad turn Fitbit down on 1st opportunity and what changed the 2nd time? 4.) What gets Brad excited in a startup? What areas are Brad most interested in? 5.) What is the main characteristic that makes the Foundry Group the huge success it is?   Items Mentioned In Today's Episode: Brad's Fave  Business Books:  1.) Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig 2.) Hot Seat by Dan Shapiro Brad's Fave Blog or Newsletter: Fred Wilson's Blog, Dan Primack: TermSheet, MatterMark Daily Brad's Most Recent Investments: GlowForge: The 3D Laser Printer, Sphero   As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC, Brad and Foundry Group on Twitter here!

Embattled Twitter CEO Dick Costolo onstage at the Code Conference with Periscope chief Kayvon Beykpour, talking about Costolo's job security and how Twitter can make more money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, is an extreme example of the high school reunion paradox. We all have seen it. Homecoming kings and queens who have sunk into mediocrity while awkward "nobodies" have somehow made it big. Costello, the one who was always picked last for the team, is now CEO of Twitter. He describes how he used his perpetual outsider status to scrap his way to the top. His strategy is surprisingly simple; it's only the execution that's difficult.1. With enough perseverance even the most unlikely to succeed may find themselves on top.2. Simply being willing to put yourself in uncomfortable situations is the best way to build resilience.3. Success in business is like forestry management: you may be surrounded by wildfires, but the key is to identify and extinguish the most urgent ones first.

In this week’s episode, Ben and James discuss Dick Costolo stepping down as CEO of Twitter, Apple’s seeming war on Google, and the concerning launch of Apple Music. Links Ben Thompson: Dick Costolo Out as Twitter CEO, Costolo’s Key Shortcoming, Twitter’s Next CEO — Stratechery Daily Update (members-only) Ben Thompson: Twitter Needs New Leadership — Stratechery Chris Sacca: What Twitter Can Ben — Lowercase Capital Mary Meeker: Internet Trends 2015 (Slide 47) — KPCB Ben Thompson: Apple Enables Ad-Blockers — Stratechery Daily Update (members-only) Ben Thompson: Apple Music and Apple’s Focus — Stratechery Charlie Warzel: Apple’s Junk Drawer Problem — … Continue reading Episode 048 — An Exhausting Week

In this week’s episode, Ben and James discuss Dick Costolo stepping down as CEO of Twitter, Apple’s seeming war on Google, and the concerning launch of Apple Music. Links Ben Thompson: Dick Costolo Out as Twitter CEO, Costolo's Key Shortcoming, Twitter's Next CEO — Stratechery Daily Update (members-only) Ben Thompson: Twitter Needs New Leadership — Stratechery Chris Sacca: What Twitter Can Ben — Lowercase Capital Mary Meeker: Internet Trends 2015 (Slide 47) — KPCB Ben Thompson: Apple Enables Ad-Blockers — Stratechery Daily Update (members-only) Ben Thompson: Apple Music and Apple’s Focus — Stratechery Charlie Warzel: Apple’s Junk Drawer Problem — … Continue reading Episode 048 — An Exhausting Week

James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books including the recent WSJ Bestseller, "Choose Yourself!" (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter). He has started and sold several companies for eight figure exits. He's on the board of a billion $ revenue company, has written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, he's run several hedge funds, venture capital funds, and is a successful angel investor, having invested in over 30 startups alongside Silicon Valley's Top VC's. In today's conversation Harry and James discuss how to continuously come up with great ideas, what tasks activate the 'idea muscle', what tactics have produced the greatest investing returns for James, what traits do great founders have, how has James' investing strategy developed, what is the future for Uber, the scam that is University and much more... Items Mentioned in Today's Show: Alternatives to College and Careers: Learn to Become an iOS Developer, Learn to Become a Web Developer James Altucher: Choose Yourself! Tim Ferriss: AngelList Syndicate Shyp: The Easiest Way To Ship Your Stuff  

El director ejecutivo de Twitter, Dick Costolo, informó la decisión de la compañía de cancelar las arrobas que difunda no solo el video de la decapitación... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris storms Twitter HQ (or "Bird Palace" as he calls it) for a super fun one-on-one with Dick Costolo: computer scientist, former improv comedian and current CEO of Twitter!

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo... It's a special late-week edition of The Rich Eisen Podcast featuring the CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo. Eisen and his fellow University of Michigan alumnus discuss all things Twitter and the incredible impact that it has had not only in sports, but in our daily lives over the past few years. The hour long conversation hits on a myriad of topics, but none more important than Eisen's request for Twitter to implement a sarcastic font, a.k.a. the "Eisen Font," and for producers Chris Law and Chris Brockman to get blue check marks.  Costolo's responses to both are priceless and spawned this week's #REP Poll Question, so be sure to vote. Enjoy, and as always, thanks for downloading! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 2013 Awards Dinner of the World Affairs Council and the Global Philanthropy Forum honors Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, Inc. This year we recognize Dick Costolo for helping to achieve positive social change through private enterprise, and for his leadership of Twitter, which is making a transformational impact on societies, economies and polities here and around the globe. Please check back soon for the full video.

Before I go into feedburner, a bit of news about it. Google Announced a year ago, that the Feedburner API was going away next month. (Oct 2012). Does this mean feedburner is going away? Maybe and maybe not. Just something to think about. Feedburner started in 2004 as a feed management service. Back in the day it was the easy way to add all the tags that iTunes needed for podcasting (after itunes started doing podcasts in their iTunes store). It was started by Dick Costolo who is now the CEO of Twitter. In 2007 it was acquired by Google for $100 Million. Google quickly made the stats and “my brand” service free. What does feedburner do? Feedburner basically takes an RSS feed and “burns it” What that means is it adds all kinds of things to the feed to make it compatible with feed readers and other services. It also redirects your feed from an unformatted XML file to a Web-friendly page with subscription buttons at the top of the page. So if someone goes to your feed with a web browser, it doesn't look like Gibberish. What about podcasting? Back in 2005, when podcasting started, there wasn't an easy way to edit your RSS feed (XML file) so you either had to write your own using a text editor and hope you got all the tags just right, or you could just write a simple feed and let feedburner do the tags for you. This is now known as “Smartcast”. This allows you to have a very simple feed that you redirect though feedburner and then feedburner formats it for podcasting in iTunes and other services. Reasons NOT to use feedburner.... 1. Feedburner is a 3rd party service. Yes, it's owned by Google, but, it can (and will sooner or later) shut down. 2. You do not OWN your feed if it's on feedburner. It's owned by feedburner / Google. Now, most of the time, Google will allow you to redirect or download any content you might have on a service they have shut down (such as WAVE and BUZZ). and WHEN (Not if) they shut down feedburner, they will likely to do the same. There is a redirect option now that I've been testing and so far it's working on a couple of feeds I had there from way back. I will let you know how long that works and if I had any trouble. 3. Branding. You want all your URL's to be your brand. You paid for your domain name, you might as well use it. Instead of feeds.feedburner.com/mypodcast/ You can have MyPodcast.com/feed/podcast/. Much better to have your own domain. You can setup feedburner to use your domain, but it's cumbersome and of little use if the service goes away. 4. Feedburner basically hasn't updated anything in at least 4 years and maybe longer. It doesn't take into account, changes in the RSS2 specs, and more importantly for podcasters, itunes changed podcast specs. 5. Their stats service is of little or no use. All they track is hits on your rss feed. One week they will show that you have 1000 subscribers and the next 200. Trust me, neither one of those numbers is close. What you want to track is downloads of your podcast files. Reasons to USE feedburner? Only one I can think of. IF, as we discussed last week, you HAVE to use a free or cheap podcasting service, you should use feedburner to make sure you own (at least a little bit) of your feed. But as I said before, this is only if feedburner stays around. There is an email subscription service attached to feedburner that is kind of cool, but with all the disadvantages that feedburner has, I would use something like MailChimp or Awebber. There are lots of mailing list services out there. Question of the week: Q. I am using blubrry powerpress on my wordpress blog for podcasting. My blog's name is not the same as my podcast show name but my Podcast only feed does have the same name. How do I change the name of my podcast feed without changing my blog's title? A. In blubrry Powerpress, you need to enable podcast channels. This is at the bottom of the main powerpress settings page in your dashboard.

Sick of potential investors not taking your phone calls? Pitch a venture capitalist on his iPod. Dick Costolo of FeedBurner tells us how his CTO did just that in the second and final part of our conversation. (Be sure to check out the first half too if you haven’t already).…

Download the MP3. Sick of potential investors not taking your phone calls? Pitch a venture capitalist on his iPod. Dick Costolo of FeedBurner tells us how his CTO did just that in the second and final part of our conversation. (Be sure to check out the first half too if you haven't already). Show notes:

Dick Costolo of FeedBurner joins us for our first show. FeedBurner provides services for publishers of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS is an interface that allows users to access data from blogs, traditional media, podcasts and other sources in the way they want to view it.…

Download the MP3. Dick Costolo of FeedBurner joins us for our first show. FeedBurner provides services for publishers of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS is an interface that allows users to access data from blogs, traditional media, podcasts and other sources in the way they want to view it. Dick's service is widely used and well funded. Show notes:

TRANSCRIPT Church Militant (a 501(c)4 corporation) is responsible for the content of this commentary. Before we begin today, please remember to keep President Trump and the First Lady in your prayers for a speedy and full recovery. We are less than a month out — but not just a month out from election day. We are less than a month out from what may very well be shaping up to be the end of this era. As many of you know who have been following Church Militant for a while now, we have been very concerned, and saying so, about the gathering evil clouds. We were concerned in 2016, as it appeared Hillary would win. Imagine where we would be now if that had happened. But right now, it appears increasingly likely that, at least in the natural order, Biden will win. Understand that the forces that were behind Hillary are the same forces behind Biden. The only difference is that now they are enraged — enraged that they weren't able to execute their wickedness four years earlier. By their timetable, they are four years behind. By now, they should have been able to usher in a socialist "new world order," and they could have done it somewhat quietly, little by little. But the surprise election of Donald Trump (looking more and more like it was ordained by Heaven) threw the demonic, of course. If Hell is about to be unleashed, unchained from the depths, very few will survive that. Depending on which side you are on, his election victory was either a reprieve or a delay. But here we are now, at this moment, uncertain as we peer into the future. Increasingly, important voices in the Church are raising the alarm, a clarion call about what a Trump defeat would entail for not just the country but the world. "The outcome of the U.S. election will determine whether the U.S. remains the leading power in the world — for freedom and democracy — or whether a communist dictatorship will assume that role for the global community." Those words were spoken by the highly influential Cdl. Gerhard Müller (former prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith — until he ran afoul of Francis' Vatican). He went on to add, "The free world owes the American people the salvation of Western civilization, which has its foundation in the freedom and dignity of every person." But — he said — this legacy is "now being challenged." That's the world that Müller foresees if Trump loses: The end of Western civilization (which was formed by the Catholic Church, by the way). But what arises in its place? That's the second voice we'd like to speak to: "We would be faced with an Orwellian dictatorship of the 'deep state' and the 'deep Church' in which the rights we today consider fundamental and inalienable would be trampled. The mainstream media will be complicit." That assessment from Abp. Viganò a couple days ago. In fact, it's even more than that. He references St. Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians — speaking of the forces of evil which would precede the appearance of the Antichrist. Those forces of evil, of the permitting of evil, are currently being restrained by Heaven, but a Biden victory would signal that Hell has been unleashed, according to Viganò. He says Biden is "a puppet manipulated by the elite, a puppet in the hands of people thirsty for power and willing to do anything to expand it." He also laments the hierarchy's participation in all this. "The universal religion advocated by the United Nations and by Freemasonry finds active collaborators in the leaders of the Catholic Church, who usurp its authority and adulterate its Magisterium." All of this is on its way as preparation for Antichrist. Whether that will be sooner than later, nobody knows, but the world is on the verge, barely teetering on the cusp of a freefall into near-total darkness. Consider that part of all this has been accomplished by the Marxist-minded, politically woke atmosphere now gripping every corporate boardroom in America. Late last week, the former CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, tweeted, "Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution. I'll happily provide video commentary." Those forces of evil, of the permitting of evil, are currently being restrained by Heaven, but a Biden victory would signal that Hell has been unleashed. Costolo was responding to another CEO who said he was going to decouple political activism in the workplace from regular business for those employees sick and tired of the cancel culture. See, once this Pandora's box is opened, there's no closing it. The entire country has been prepped ahead of time, politically, culturally, commercially for a "woke" culture that will give no allowance for religious beliefs or personal conscience. As Viganò points out, like Church Militant has been shouting for years, the media has led the way in this. To provide some measure of counterweight against their evil is why we started St. Michael's Media. As we peer into the future, these apocalyptic happenings will either occur relatively soon, or they will be forestalled. They will happen, the question is "When?" Next year, 10 years from now, 100 years from now? But as we ponder that thought, the question arises, can you imagine a world where more would need to be done to receive him whom St. Paul calls the "Man of Lawlessness"? We have millions and millions of children murdered in the womb every year and sodomy celebrated as a "right" and even forced on children in schools. We have a Church whose leadership has all but abandoned the Faith across the world. If there was a time that earth would be ready to begin its final birth pains, it appears this might be that time. Yes, there is much more to this election than meets the eye — much more. Make sure you are in a state of grace and praying every day. If Hell is about to be unleashed, unchained from the depths, very few will survive that — only the souls committed to Our Lord and His Blessed Mother.