Tony Stubblebine

I was the head of engineering at Odeo, probably Jack Dorsey's last boss.

That's probably my management claim to fame.

And I'm Twitter employee number six.

Twitter user number six.

But I only worked there during the Odeo days, not after Twitter got spun out into its own company.

You know, for the book Catching Twitter, I'm the only person at Odeo who refused to be interviewed for that book.

And basically I did it so that I could write my own book one day.

Okay.

Because I'm the only person who can credibly say, no, everything in the book is wrong.

You didn't talk to me.

I know what actually happened, and I'm ready to tell all.

You know, the thing about hatching Twitter, which is the most complete, is that two things that people should know.

The article form, which was really about kind of stirring up controversy, I think it appeared in The New Yorker, was total bullshit.

The book itself is basically true.

The story rang true.

Almost all of the facts that I knew about were wrong in some minor way as I read the book.

But the actual story of it felt true.

And to me, the Twitter story was kind of the story of salvation.

It was a product that came out of a company where it's sort of behind

You know, the team was behind the whole way through.