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07-06-2016, 07:11 AM
Facebook's former chief tech**logy ******r is joining Twitter's board
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Twitter's newest board member once belonged to the C-suite of its much bigger competitor.
The social network an**unced Tuesday that Bret Taylor, former Facebook chief tech**logy ******r and CEO of productivity software startup Quip, will join its board of directors as its ninth member.*
SEE ALSO: Twitter adds BET's CEO to board, bolstering diversity and media chops (http://mashable.com/2016/05/16/twitter-debra-lee/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Taylor, who is also credited with co-creating Google Maps before joining Facebook, offers a product and engineering k**w-how the board largely lacks at the moment.
"Bret brings to our Board a great mind for consumer products and tech**logies that will be invaluable to the company as we execute our plans for 2016 and beyond," said Twitter's executive chairman, Omid Kordestani, in a press release statement. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/05/twitter-board-facebook-cto/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Twitter's newest board member once belonged to the C-suite of its much bigger competitor.
The social network an**unced Tuesday that Bret Taylor, former Facebook chief tech**logy ******r and CEO of productivity software startup Quip, will join its board of directors as its ninth member.*
SEE ALSO: Twitter adds BET's CEO to board, bolstering diversity and media chops (http://mashable.com/2016/05/16/twitter-debra-lee/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Taylor, who is also credited with co-creating Google Maps before joining Facebook, offers a product and engineering k**w-how the board largely lacks at the moment.
"Bret brings to our Board a great mind for consumer products and tech**logies that will be invaluable to the company as we execute our plans for 2016 and beyond," said Twitter's executive chairman, Omid Kordestani, in a press release statement. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/05/twitter-board-facebook-cto/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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