@evan

Engineer/Founder/Investor https://nitter.cf/t.co/yC0BNYmXBs

Boston
Joined February 2007
RIP Larry the Bird. You deserved better
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People expect Twitter to revert to the fail whale days, but the problems then were scaling problems: challenging but benign with clear success conditions. Twitter isn't growing anymore and the problems now are all adversarial: spam, hackers, trolls, competition, regulatory.
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I know the team understands this. Unclear if the new management does.
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In my opinion the key to restarting growth is new product lines. Focus on efficiency in the old thing and invest speculatively in new, adjacent things. Meta did this well. For whatever reason Twitter never had the resolve to see things like Periscope and Vine through.
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I'm stepping back from my CTO role at Fauna: fauna.com/blog/stepping-back
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Honor, strength, and safety to the people of Ukraine, and to all working to end this senseless war.
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Evan Weaver retweeted
Join us for “Pulumi, FaunaDB & Temporal talk Cloud Developer Stacks/Tools” w/ @jeffhasselman, @mkosut, @anusharma, @erikashaffer, @lukehoban, @evan, @SSomasegar, @funcOfJoe 🗓 Thu, Jun 10 at 6:00 PM EDT on @clubhouse clubhouse.com/event/xXOn5rR3 #AWS #developers #CloudComputing
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