[aaron-lebo]

I watched that the other day.

Kroc was just as visionary, if also greedy and manipulative and ready to succeed at all costs. He's clearly not afraid to steal a business or wife. He's also somehow easy to relate to (thanks Keaton).

You can see him lying to himself and justifying his actions. Got the feeling that Kroc wasn't all that different from many SV founders. You don't go to SV to make a burger stand, you go there to make an empire. There's a reason Kroc is discussed in business schools.

On a side note, reading about the founding of Twitter there's a lot this kind of back and forth.

[tripplethrendo]

Can you recommend any reading on the founding of Twitter?

[aaron-lebo]

I've been listening to:

"Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDUVSQ0/

As you can tell, it's the kind of thing meant for the best seller list and isn't a scholarly work or anything, but the preface stresses it's based on lots of interviews.

If nothing else, it's a fun read and the background of the founders is pretty interesting.