Jack Dorsey’s Internal Memo TAKE 2

Hi team!

I’ve served as CEO for one year now. There’s a lot I could say, but there’s only one thing I want to say:

We’re not getting bought out. We’re bigger and more important than our unwelcome suitors. Not only are we not getting bought out. We’re doubling down. We’re betting on ourselves. We are that good! We have far more value than we’ve ever been priced at.

You’ve made Twitter the place where people go when the world falls apart, when truth needs to speak to power, when the human race needs to unite behind a cause. Your work brings the world democracy, transparency, justice, and an ability to rally as history unfolds.

We spent a good part of the year getting to the truth. The most important truth is what we are and why we’re here: Twitter is the people’s news network. We empower every citizen on this planet to reach the rest of us when it matters most. Think about that! You’ve made a platform that gives truth a voice! Maybe the biggest voice on the planet.

There are now more active mobile devices in the world than there are people (7 billion!). We’ve united people around the world like no other social network ever has, like no traditional news network ever can. What does that mean? It means we play a huge role in how history unfolds. It means we’re uniting the world, changing the future.

It also means we can’t be bought out. Here’s why: Democracy and communication don’t belong to a corporation with its own agenda, so neither can Twitter. Twitter means trust only so long as we are our own masters.

We’re only limited by our sense of urgency. Life is short. Every day matters. We have billions of people to connect to Twitter, to connect to each other. The 10 Game NFL contract … that was just the tip (of the tip of the tip) of the iceberg. Let’s get every major sports league from every continent on here. I want rugby, cricket, soccer, MMA. Live debates are great but let’s go after the live music, live performances. Let’s make the most useful app on the planet, the most fun to use. I want Home to feel exciting, not overwhelming. I want people to open Twitter and feel immediate value rather than immediate distraction. The people who use Twitter every day deserve our best. They are why we’re here. So let’s show them what we’re made of and deliver a better Twitter faster than they thought possible. We can do this every day. We can do this!

I’ll end by expressing gratitude for all of you. It’s going to take all of us to make Twitter the world’s network (all 7 billion of us). You are making that happen. You are doing some of the most amazing, most important work on the planet. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

❤, jack