Jack Dorsey, the cofounder of Twitter, slammed the board that oversaw the social media firm during his tenure at its helm, saying the group had “always been a problem.”
“I was extremely challenged by my board,” Dorsey said during an interview published Thursday by Mike Solana, the head of marketing for VC firm Founders Fund and editor of digital media brand Pirate Wires.
“The board has always been a problem at that company, and I was happy to see it end,” Dorsey continued. “But there was only one way for it to end, which is going private. And I think that’s the greatest act.”
Twitter was sold for $44 billion in October 2022 to Elon Musk, who took the platform private, radically changed its approach, and rebranded it to X. By then, Dorsey had already stepped down from the company, leaving it in 2021 to its new CEO, Parag Agrawal.
Dorsey told Solana that earlier on, he’d tried to bring Musk onto Twitter’s board but was stopped twice. That was partially why he decided to ditch the platform, he said.
In April 2022, Musk joined Twitter’s board of directors after taking a 9.2% stake in the company.
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