The company’s CEO talks about focusing on news, ramping up video, incorporating AI, balancing safety with freedom of speech, and more.
The company’s CEO talks about focusing on news, ramping up video, incorporating AI, balancing safety with freedom of speech, and more.
In a tech industry full of executives prone to loudly proclaiming their intention to transform the world in multiple ways all at once, Twitter cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey stands out for his understated approach, which involves picking a few things that matter and then obsessing over them. Our October cover story chronicles the focus that he’s chosen for Twitter: making it the best place to follow live news and events, including even NFL games and other sports playing right inside the app. That’s how the company hopes to defy its skeptics—who, more than ever, are legion—and get the world thinking of it as something other than a social network that will never catch up with Facebook in terms of sheer scale.
