Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave.<p>The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company.<p>Who ever the next CTO is, they&#x27;re going to have some tough decisions to make.  Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent.<p>I don&#x27;t want this to seem inflammatory to people as twitter obviously has some serious engineering talent, but does anyone consider them to be a big name in tech anymore?  They seem to be in the range of say PayPal in that they have a decent reputation but they aren&#x27;t really a name that gets you any resume recognition anymore.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;27&#x2F;business&#x2F;dealbook&#x2F;twitters-steep-premium-the-cost-of-employee-stock-grants.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;27&#x2F;business&#x2F;dealbook&#x2F;twitters...</a><p>&gt; By way of comparison, the company reported $2.2 billion in revenue for 2015 — meaning that it paid out 31 cents in stock-based compensation for every dollar of sales it collected.<p>You&#x27;re going to be fighting several battles that aren&#x27;t really engineering related,<p>- how to finally fix harassment that seems to be much more pronounced on your platform than pretty much any other mainstream social media site.<p>- how to get alot more advertising dollars on your site to an audience that short of reddit, seems to dislike advertising more than most social media sites.<p>And on top of all of this, you&#x27;re probably going to have to shrink your engineering head count to make yourself look more appetizing to potential acquirers.<p>Yikes......