It’s one of Silicon Valley’s great oddities that start-up founders refer to themselves as “entrepreneurs.” More often than not, the people who come up with company ideas have no understanding of how to run a business or turn a profit. Partly as a result, the relationship between the entrepreneurs, who have the ideas, and the venture capitalists, who finance them, can become tense.
Nick talks about the history Twitter, it’s founders, and how it got to where it is today. I’m very curious to know how much of this story is true—but regardless it’s an incredibly fun read.