@ku1ik I'm not completely sure if it was his idea to start it or someone else's at Twitter, generally Twitter started the project and he was involved. And they didn't really direct everything themselves, they basically did a research phase, reviewed several teams who applied and picked Jay who had some vision and they liked it. And then she insisted to set it up as a separate company, they agreed, she hired a couple of people, they gave her money and Jack ended up on the board.
@ku1ik And I think he was somewhat involved at the beginning as an advisor, but then as they started building the concrete service in 2022/23 he disagreed with a bunch of decisions (we don't know the details), he was overruled, and he got less and less interested.
Then in the summer he occasionally posted on the site, but by then the userbase was strongly left-leaning, anti-capitalist etc. so they basically chased him off the site and he deleted the account 😬
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