Tom Verrilli
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first heard Aug 2026
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For those who are not familiar with that lore, I think we had nine heads of product in the two years that I was there.
It was that level of chaos.
I think my favorite quote was from someone on the partnerships team who said, it felt like Kara Swisher lived in the events.
That was how often drama was going on about the place.
I think, Lenny, I probably took two overwhelming things away from my time at Twitter.
And other than some incredible friends, and I will say that the product diaspora from that era of Twitter is pretty incredible and everywhere.
The first one is if you truly find product market fit, if you manage to bottle lightning, it doesn't matter how badly you screw up the organization of it.
It's huge.
Twitter genuinely had that level of product market fit that you could emotionally feel how much people loved your product.
And it's a really powerful litmus test to learn relatively early in your career.
That's what PMF is.
Not like, hey, the graphs look okay.
There's a level of fervor that goes in.
I think maybe on the flip side of less positive is what I definitely learned is most of the time you hear it's really complex.
It isn't.
Leadership is just weak.
So the two years that I was there, everyone knew we were going to have to lift the 140 character limit.
There was working group after working group.
The project beyond 140 was everywhere because we knew, for example, that people in Japan tweeted six times more often than people in Western markets.
And it was largely when we spoke to them because Kanji lets you say heaps more in the same number of characters than a Romance language did.
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