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Twitter’s CEO Will Respond To Whether He’s High Once He Finishes These Doritos

Josh Constine

Peter Thiel thinks Twitter is more 420 than 140-characters. In a CNBC interview today, the famous Facebook investor bashed its competitor saying “Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It’s a horribly mismanaged company—probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there.”

And when Twitter employee Jason Goldman ribbed Twitter CEO and former improv comedian Dick Costolo about it, the chief had the perfect response. After Goldman joked that maybe it was Thiel who was blazed when he said he wanted to live on a seasteading platform with its own laws, Dick replied “working my way through a giant bag of Doritos. I’ll catch up with you later.”

https://twitter.com/dickc/status/512285088613031936

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The whole thing is even sillier considering Thiel donated $70,000 to a marijuana legalization campaign in 2010. But now he’s promoting his book Zero To One, and a little controversy can’t hurt sales.

This isn’t Twitter’s first run in with that sticky icky. Snoop Dogg notoriously smoked up Twitter’s whole office during a visit while the executives were out of town. Costolo was apparently pissed.

But at least Thiel’s investment vehicle Founders Fund isn’t letting today’s kerfuffle harsh its vibe. This morning it tweeted:

[Image Via Pandodaily]

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Josh Constine
Josh Constine is a Venture Partner at ~$3 billion AUM early-stage VC fund SignalFire where he invests in pre-seed startups with a focus on consumer. He teaches startup pitch writing and fundraising strategy as a recurring lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School Of Business, and with accelerators like Z Fellows, Inception Studios, and Stanford ASES. Previously, Constine was Editor-At-Large for TechCrunch where he wrote 4000 articles and was ranked the #1 most cited tech journalist in the world from 2016-2020 by Techmeme. Constine has led 300+ on-stage interviews and keynotes in 18 countries with luminaries including Mark Zuckerberg and the CEOs of Shopify, DoorDash, Snapchat, Instagram, and more. Constine graduated from Stanford University with a Master’s degree he designed in Cybersociology, and wrote his thesis in 2008 on why remixable memes would be the future of marketing. He has been quoted in the NYT and WSJ, is regularly featured on CNN for his thoughts on AI and Silicon Valley, and advises startups on PR, fundraising, and organic growth.
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