Nick Bilton is a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, where he explores the disruptive aspects of technology on business, culture and society. His columns span everything from the future of technology and privacy to the impact of social media on the Web. He is a regular guest on national TV and radio and is the author of I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works. He lives in Los Angeles.
The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent
The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political oppression in the Middle East to a marketing must-have to the world’s living room during live TV events to President Trump’s preferred method of communication. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world.
But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on.
In this rousing history that reads like a novel, Hatching Twitter takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter’s early exponential growth, following the four hackers—Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, who created the cultural juggernaut practically by accident. It’s a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles over money, influence, and control over a company that was growing faster than they could ever imagine.
Drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails, Bilton offers a rarely-seen glimpse of the inner workings of technology startups, venture capital, and Silicon Valley culture.
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2013: Spoiler alert: The subtitle sorta says it all. That is, Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter delivers "A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," though not necessarily in that order. The book's four central players--Ev, Jack, Biz, and Noah--conceived of Twitter while working on Odeo, an ultimately doomed attempt to revolutionize podcasting. As their little chick grew, the four men's personal and ideological differences led to a power struggle that eventually left them all on the sidelines as a former stand-up comedian took Twitter into the uncertain future. Writing with the pacing and veracity of detail of a true-crime book, Bilton makes use of a trove of source material--from internal Twitter e-mails to extensive interviews with and early tweets by the founders themselves--and the result is as exciting and fast-paced as it is topically relevant. If you're looking for a thoughtful rumination about Twitter as a revolutionary global communications platform, keep looking. If you're looking for a quick, well-written, thoroughly researched human drama, the story of an utterly dysfunctional foursome and the accelerated unraveling of their once brilliant partnership, this is your book. #HighlyRecommended. --Jason Kirk (@brasswax)
Review
"A fast-paced and perceptive new book by Nick Bilton." -- The New York Times
"Extensively detailed... unexpectedly addictive." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Deeply reported and deliciously written." -- The Verge
"A compelling read, more like espionage than a corporate history." -- Fortune Magazine
"A dramatic and detail-rich recounting." -- Cnet
"Fast-paced... a perceptive read." -- USA Today
"Goes where no book has gone before." -- The Huffington Post
"Unputdownable." -- Wall Street Journal Columnist
本书详细讲述twitter的发展史。感觉基本上是一部创始人从朋友变敌人,勾心斗角的历史。Twitter本身的产品发展反而相对比较简单。 书中披露了许多email、谈话、会议的细节,作者说这些是数百个小时的采访,1000多份内部文件和数不清的互联网上的资料中挖掘出来的。 令人吃惊的...
評分 評分硅谷是个孵化梦想的地方。这片聚集了全风险投资总额三分之一的土地好似19世纪的阿拉斯加,吸引着年轻人追逐自己的光荣与梦想。所不同的,前辈们的手中是掘金的铁铲,而IT男们的工具,则是脑中的ideas.这些想法更像是一颗颗“蛋”,在孵化之前你尽可以幻想,在孵化时你要学会...
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評分毫無跟創業, 科技, 商業, 或産品有關的洞見.. 多是人物描寫公司內鬥.. 要不剛好趕著Twitter上市來齣版就是本沒意思的邊緣傳記..
评分它其實是一本小說,作為小說還是值得一看。但作者帶著太多主觀態度,個人喜惡極其明顯,把 Jack Dorsay 都快黑齣翔瞭。被踢下CEO時是他蠢,重新迴來是他有手段,現在名利雙收又描寫他深夜一個人孤單無助在陽颱上聽海。。能看英文盡量看英文吧,很多詞、句,我相信現在這本倉促齣版的中文版肯定沒法翻譯到位。
评分值得一讀,雖然戲劇化得稍過瞭一點點。
评分作者實在過於熱愛形容詞和副詞以及場景描述瞭,所以怎麼都覺得沒有真實感,盡管我相信作為紐時的作者應該在真實性上沒什麼問題。而且文章最後的結尾處理地挺粗糙,感覺硬生生地把書拔到瞭人性的高度。當然,這也是因為此前過於注重細節的緣故。但總體來說確實是一部信息量很大的書,真心膜拜比爾頓能挖到這麼多信息。
评分總算讀完 越到後麵越無聊 以後這種內容吧 寫一篇文章不就好
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