It’s one thing for Dorsey to step aside and hand the CEO role off to the company’s most trusted engineer, Agrawal. Why does that matter? For all of their faults, most of our social networks have been run by people who have built up institutional memory about their companies’ past mistakes and the unintended consequences of their actions.
One exception is Reddit, which has had two non-founder CEOs, but their stints were fairly brief, and the company has mostly stayed in the hands of co-founders - with Alexis Ohanian as its former chair and Steve Huffman as its current CEO. But even he had at least been COO for a while first. Twitter’s been led by mostly founders - Ev Williams, then Jack Dorsey - save for a brief spell when Dick Costolo ran it. Susan Wojcicki didn’t start YouTube, but she was an early Googler and oversaw its purchase of the video site before becoming the YouTube CEO. Mark Zuckerberg still has a stranglehold on Meta. social media platform is run by someone who wasn’t there when it all began. If he does, it’ll be one of the rare times a major U.S. Speaking of who Musk has in mind to replace Twitter’s leadership team, Musk is reportedly planning to take on the CEO role himself. No doubt Musk has some people in mind that he likes for the roles, but those people will inevitably face a learning curve - and global regulators have long since run out of patience with social platforms.
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