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Re:Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week by danieltillett on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:01AM (#12785418)
I was just responding to the parent post who suggested that you can’t bootstrap because some better funded company will come along and put you out of business. You can if you choose the right niche.

Of course Twitter as a business did not have this choice - they had to go big or go home. For the founders though it might have been better to have built something else.

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Re:Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week by simonswords82 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:26AM (#12785921)
> For the founders though it might have been better to have built something else.

I doubt it. All of the founders are mega wealthy now both as a result of Twitter and other ventures. Twitter might not have reached the dizzy heights they aspired to, but like it or loathe it Twitter is a household name and the founders are "famous".

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