When the founder dies and the surviving intern PM takes over running the company

https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1649433829390667777

David Sacks on Twitter

“Simplest way for corporate journalists to get blue checks en masse would be for their organizations to go gold and affiliate them. Stop pretending this is a personal expense. It’s a business expense.”

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@chrismessina it’s staggering how badly they want people to pay for a check mark so they won’t be exposed as just riding Donald Frunk

@chrismessina "At
@craft_ventures
, we’ve been paying for blue checks for our employees for awhile now"

Yeah this might warrant a wee disclaimer of special interests 😆

@chrismessina scolding and explaining are wonderful marketing techniques.
@chrismessina This Verified Org Affiliates feature reminds me of Federation in the Fediverse.
@mykl Right? Like — how will Twitter get a significant number of global companies to list their org charts on Twitter? As a precondition to advertising? What the what??