Dick Costolo
Dick Costolo
Dick Costolowas the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010. On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo would step down as CEO on July 1, 2015 and would be replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey on an interim basis until the Board of Directors could find a replacement. On August 8, 2015, The New York Times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth10 September 1963
CountryUnited States of America
Dick Costolo quotes about
Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.
Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.
Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.
When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.
The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike… is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
Believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there, that you will have an impact, as a result of what you do. And you don't need to know now what that would be or how will it happen because no one ever does.
Twitter is a global town square.
Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.
As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.
The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.
That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.