Any book that starts with a description of a chief executive on his knees, throwing up into a bin after being betrayed by friends and investors is unlikely to be a traditional founder’s tale.
Forget your classic bedroom-to-billionaire narrative, often so dull that it must be perked up with allusions to a girl who got away: the story of Twitter’s foundation is a full-on saga of back-stabbing. And it is published the same week as the social media company’s initial public offering.
In Hatching Twitter , New York Times journalist Nick Bilton traces the company’s history from an idea so simple no one really knew what to do with it to a service equally famous for celebrities and revolutionaries.