Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and an early investor at Facebook, once said of Twitter: “You could throw a grenade into Twitter’s offices after 6 p.m. and the only person you would kill is the cleaning lady.”
Not anymore, Mr. Costolo says.
“It’s really difficult to change a company’s culture, but I did this by making sure I stayed late,” he says. “I’d go home, have dinner with my kids and then come back into the office. People knew that if they were in the office at 10 p.m., I’d be here, too, and that’s when I would go around and talk to people and answer questions.”
Dick Costolo of Twitter, an Improv Master Writing Its Script - NYTimes.com
He sounds awfully proud of guilting people into staying at the office all night. What a jackass. No wonder Twitter is going to shit.