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EP 32: Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Talks About His Time at Second City, Running Twitter, and Missing Out on Instagram

The Logan Bartlett Show

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How to Manage a Big Company at Scale

When i was a twitter, i used to tell the company em the following things. I want you to assume that your co workers are working in the best interests of the company. Start with the assumption that whether someone did something stupid or smart and always assume they're trying to do the right thing for the company. You know, it's the, remember, there's one david foster wallace commencement speech where he talks about like being in a car behind someone at a red light, and a light turns green, and people just start laying on the horn. It's like, why do people just assume the person, you know, what's the person had a hard attack but people just,

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