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Odeo and Twitter
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- 0:00Apple killed his company in one [music]
- 0:01keynote. This is Ev Williams. He'd
- 0:03already sold Blogger to Google. Then he
- 0:05built Odeo, a podcast platform, in 2005.
- 0:07Then Steve Jobs [music] walked on stage,
- 0:09June 2005. Podcasts built into iTunes,
- 0:12free. [music] Odeo was dead in one
- 0:14sentence. Investors, employees, a
- 0:16product nobody needed. Most founders
- 0:18shut down. He bought the investors out
- 0:20[music] with his own money. Then he
- 0:21looked at his side project. An engineer
- 0:23named Jack Dorsey had built a way to
- 0:24send short messages [music] to everyone
- 0:26at once, 140 characters. They called it
- 0:28Twitter, no vowels. Nobody understood
- 0:30it. Then South by Southwest. It tripled
- 0:32[music] in a week. Then every newsroom.
- 0:34Then every president. 2022, Elon Musk
- 0:37paid 44 billion for it. He'd walked away
- 0:39years [music] before. Apple ended Odeo
- 0:41in a sentence. What survived it is worth
- 0:4344 billion. Follow Vibe Economies for
- 0:46more.
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