Book Talk: Battle for the Bird by Kurt Wagner

Join us at the Press Club for our October Book Talk! Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter’s everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world’s most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey’s triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @RealDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird exposes the messy reality and relentless challenges that come with building a global social network.

Kurt Wagner is an award-winning business and technology journalist leading social media coverage for Bloomberg, where he has worked since 2019. He’s been covering social media since 2013 and previously worked at Recode, Mashable, and Fortune. Kurt grew up near Seattle, went to college at Santa Clara University, and now lives in Denver with his wife and two kids. Follow him on Twitter @KurtWagner8.

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