We had a great interview with Twitter COO Dick Costolo at the Real-Time CrunchUp on Friday. Costolo always gives the audience a few good nuggets of news and handles the more difficult questions with ease. He’s a pro.
After the conference I reviewed some of the backstage footage we shot of Costolo before he went on stage for the formal interview. We ask lots of great questions – about Twitter’s revenue, business model, details of the search deals, chances of getting bought next year, and the lovely bathrooms they have at the office. He manages to entertain the entire TechCrunch editorial staff while revealing absolutely nothing. We even slip in a question about Feedburner (Costolo cofounded the company and sold it to Google in 2007) at the end, but sadly we ran out of tape before he answered.
One thing Costolo does clear up – even though I’ve known him for five years now, I apparently have been mispronouncing his name the whole time.
Funny video, but please learn how to handle a camera without shaking it. [If I woul've watched it a 2nd time I would've gotten a headache!]
sometimes shaky footage is what you get with us. This wasn’t planned, but he was saying good stuff and so I grabbed my camera. we’re rough around the edges. The exit is a click away if you don’t approve.
I enjoyed the on-stage interview and his hints on their upcoming advertising / business model made me really curious. Again it will be very interesting to see if twitter & co will focus on the low hanging fruit of licensing to the big guys so much that the possible dependencies might turn into problems long term. Dick’s remarks certainly gave me hope that this will not be the case. Exciting times.
Haha, great ending.
“and SCENE!” Perfect ending.
It would definitely be nice if you quoted what type of phone the footage was shot with. That way it would be either Google or Apple on the defense jus like the Auto focus on the droid..
woah…good ending
Steve
http://www.isopurewater.com/
Seems like a really cool guy.
Chicago misses you, Dick! Good stuff and certainly more interesting than talking to certain local reporters who shall remain nameless.
and the answer to that last question???
I know this is an old post now but I was laughing out loud when I caught the ending. Oh great timing!