Jack Dorsey’s dazzling startup promised to transform the credit and finance industry with a sweeping, digitized vision of the future. After losing $100 million, has his company lost its edge?
The Future of Twitter: Q&A with Jack Dorsey
An in-depth conversation on 10 years of tweeting, the importance of live media, and “the puddle.”
Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’
The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity
It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself
Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.
GREG ISENBERG on Twitter / X
I think the most interesting thing about Jack Dorsey's "Slack killer" is the idea around shared compute.I haven't seen people talk about it so here are my thoughts FWIW:Open models got good, close enough to the paid frontier stuff to run for real. But the strongest ones need… https://t.co/b5PBgYjAGL— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) July 25, 2026
One Year of Bluesky
A year ago today my pal Lou Anders asked me if I wanted an invite to a new microblogging site called Bluesky, which was making a little bit of a news splash because Jack Dorsey was on its board, an…
The Insider Story of Twilio
This is the insider story of Twilio, told by Co-Founder & CEO Jeff Lawson, from "Idea to IPO" — and now a $63 Billion market cap.
What happened when this tech company stopped using Slack on Fridays - Fast Company
The social media platform wanted to see if they can be more focused and productive when there aren't endless Slack notifications.
Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?
Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions?
The Challenges Of Growing A Plugin Business - FooPlugins
The business and our brand grew fast. In retrospect, I was extremely naive thinking that the growth would simply continue.
Carl Pei Thinks the Phone of the Future Will Only Have One App
Nothing’s CEO speaks to WIRED about how he sees the smartphone market playing out in an era of AI, and where he thinks the competition is going wrong.
Scott Galloway - The Four - What To Do
Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough — Brian Balfour
I’ve been lucky to have been part of building, advising, or investing in 40+ tech companies in the past 10 years. Some $100M+ wins. Some, complete losses. Most end up in the middle. One of my main observations is that there are certain companies where growth seems to come easily, like gui
Our Social Media is Broken. Is Decentralization the Fix? | Internet Archive Blogs
When Jack Dorsey, founder of the very centralized social media platform, Twitter, posted this message about decentralized social media, our DWeb community took note:
Are Tech Bros Ruining Fashion?
Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
Facebook gave one of the worst keynotes in a long time: there was no vision, just the adoption of Snap’s. It’s the inevitable outcome of a monopoly.
Same graph, but with the time series expanded to three years. Honestly, it's a minor miracle that a social media company not backed by oligarchs or the state, with no attempt at establishing a revenue stream, and with multiple established competitors, had so much growth in such short time
James Ball
I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.
