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'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'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't really a name that gets you any resume recognition anymore.<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/business/dealbook/twitters-steep-premium-the-cost-of-employee-stock-grants.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/business/dealbook/twitters...</a><p>> 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're going to be fighting several battles that aren'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're probably going to have to shrink your engineering head count to make yourself look more appetizing to potential acquirers.<p>Yikes......