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y 2008, Twitter was really taking off. According to Jack, “We’d
raised $20 million, and the servers were crashing every day.” The
website was growing faster than anyone could have imagined,
but that was a good thing! “It wasn’t so much that the ship was sinking,”
Jack commented, “but more ‘Great job, Jack—we’ve got to up our level
of experience and lay some foundation for a much bigger organization.”
Unfortunately, Jack never got the chance to improve the company in
the ways he envisioned. His job as
chief executive officer
(CEO) was
taken away in October 2008 when Twitter co-founder Evan Williams
asked Jack to step down from his CEO position. After Jack agreed, Evan
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