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Glad I stayed up for the Twitter doc! Episode 1 thoughts:

- Hands down nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 has the best interviews; most educational, no agenda.

-“Ev” doesn’t seem like a good person.

-I learned something new.

It was fun to watch, i was worried they’d portray Jack as the villain but the didn’t seem to do that, in this episode at least. And yeah, Ev… I’ll let others tell that story, just pointing out that he did the same thing at Blogger, Twitter, and Medium.

Ok, I’ve tried really hard to be polite and nice about it, but i will say something, Ev promised us that our stock options would be honored then did an asset sale that effectively left the early employees and angel investors with nothing. Sometime around a decade after twitter launched, i got a check for $1200… pretty shit for stock options which were on paper worth 1.4% of the company. That was 100% Ev’s doing.

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That’s awful. Yeah it was so obvious to me that he’s not a good guy. I know nothing about them (and also didn’t know jack wasn’t the ceo for a span of time) but “Ev’s” presence alone in this doc is reading to me to me like he’s trying to distance himself from the responsibility of Twitter, which, like - is consistent with his evading personality in saying “I knew he wasn’t ready but I didn’t want ceo…” It’s just a shame he’s older and playing the same games.

You however are brilliant in this doc! 🎉💁🏽‍♀️

Where can I watch?

Oh my, I didn't know that happened to you. There's nothing more frustrating and demoralizing than not being fairly rewarded for one's contributions. More than the amount of money (the amount is important too!), everyone has a basic human need to have their work recognized, and numbers provide an objective way to measure that anyway.

However, there are too many thieves and free riders in the process. There are also predators who see nice people as easy prey rather than treating them better. I've learned that people who are inherently unable to do evil must at least be firm in self-protection.

You probably don't know how much I've detested and despised Ev for the past 10 years. When personal feelings are involved, my judgment of people fails (for example, I tend to be blind when I fall in love, and I was so loyal to my friends that I used to neglect taking care of myself😑), but in objective situations (like the Ev case), I can distinguish scammers and evil people as if I have a scouter of Dragon Ball. I recognized Ev as a sob at first sight.

I haven't watched the full documentary yet, but the downfall of Twitter can be traced back to Ev. He took control of substantial benefits including stock shares, played tricks on the board, and constantly hindered Jack from having enough authority as CEO (even when he returned in 2015). While Ev took no responsibility and contributed nothing that benefited the company, he was jealous of Jack's reputation and only sought opportunities to sell Medium to Twitter at a high price.. Ev is an extremely evil person.

Jack should be separately criticized for turning the company into a political tool, swayed by far-left employees, activists, and politicians, despite the sincere advice of some loyal supporters. (I think he has already been sufficiently criticized, tho. Looking at the current state of Xitter, the time when Jack was CEO seems normal instead.)

But actually, Jack was already exhausted because of Ev before Twitter became politically biased, and he had almost no real authority to correct it.

Anyway, thank you for continuing to work for Nostr despite such unfair circumstances. 🙏

Your pink hair in the video looks cool btw 🩷

The almighty will decide Not the other guys who dont trust🥳