Deep Tweet gave us the inside line on Twitter’s real valuation, and on what terms it had just raised a mountain of money. What fraction of the total float our shares represented, the inner workings of the board, and why Twitter would eventually seem like such an unholy cluster fuck from the outside (answer: because it was a cluster fuck on the inside). The fights between and among the board and the management, often staged at dysfunctional board meetings at which every big-name board member arrived with his or her entourage. The fact that both Ev Williams and Biz Stone were mentally checked
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