Dick Costolo

Dick Costolo (2010)

Dick Costolo (* 1963 ) was CEO of Twitter and its former COO from 2010 to 2015 . He assumed the office of CEO of Evan Williams in October 2010.

He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Michigan and his master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley . Costolo studied acting while studying at the University of Michigan. He took acting classes to meet graduation requirements from the university. After graduating, he decided not to take offers from technology companies and moved to Chicago, where he worked as a stand-up comedian .

In 2004, Costolo founded the web feed provider FeedBurner with Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski and Matt Shobe . After Google bought FeedBurner in 2007, Dick Costolo became an employee of the company. After the acquisition, Costolo worked in other areas of Google. He left Google in 2009 to join Twitter as its COO in September 2009. He became CEO of Twitter in 2010 because his predecessor Evan Williams was on paternity leave. During the representation, it became apparent that he would keep the post permanently.

On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo was stepping down as CEO of Twitter on July 1, 2015. He is succeeded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey .

literature

Dick Costolo , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 14/2014 from April 1, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Dick Costolo - collection of images, videos and audio files

CrunchBase Profile Costolos
Dick Costolo: Executive Profile & Biography - BusinessWeek
Paul Kedrosky: Conversation with Dick Costolo, COO, Twitter , Infectious Talk. May 16, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2011.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b MG Siegler: Dick Costolo Takes Twitter CEO Role So Evan Williams Can Focus On Product , TechCrunch. October 4, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
^ Dick Costolo | CrunchBase Profile
↑ ^a ^b Jessica Guynn: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is determined to get the last laugh (en) . In: Los Angeles Times , January 30, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
↑ Michael Arrington: Oh, RSS Is Definitely Dead Now: Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo To Become Twitter COO , TechCrunch. September 2, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
↑ Jack Dorsey officially confirmed as the new CEO at horizont.de, October 6, 2015 (accessed October 20, 2015).

personal data
SURNAME	Costolo, Dick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American computer scientist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH	1963

[ceo-1] A ^b MG Siegler: Dick Costolo Takes Twitter CEO Role So Evan Williams Can Focus On Product , TechCrunch. October 4, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2011.

[2] Dick Costolo | CrunchBase Profile

[chitrib-3] Jessica Guynn: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is determined to get the last laugh (en) . In: Los Angeles Times , January 30, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2019.

[4] Michael Arrington: Oh, RSS Is Definitely Dead Now: Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo To Become Twitter COO , TechCrunch. September 2, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2011.

[5] Jack Dorsey officially confirmed as the new CEO at horizont.de, October 6, 2015 (accessed October 20, 2015).