In case you missed it: Dick Costolo stepped down as CEO of Twitter today.
You should know that I’m incredibly conflicted in writing about this news. Not financially– we have no business relationship with Twitter whatsoever.
No, I’m conflicted in the more real way: Emotionally. In a Valley full of enemies, frenemies, and “friends,” I count Costolo as one of my only actual friends– not just on Facebook and with no quotation marks or asterisks around the word. One reason is what I’ve said about Costolo many times: He’s one of the only people I’ve known in a 15 year career writing about “overnight successes” who went from semi-nobody to massive success without changing one jot.