business Overview
| HQ | placeSan Francisco Bay Area |
| Business | Microblogging |
| Founded | access_time 17 years ago (founded Mar 21, 2006) |
| Company trajectory rank | TrueUp Rank #703 |
| Employees | 8,000 TrueUp Rank #155 |
| Valuation | $44 billion TrueUp Rank #54 |
| Public / Private | Private |
| Lists | Consumer Social Elon Musk Company Activism-Free Workplace investor: Sequoia investor: a16z |
Twitter is a microblogging company with 25 job openings. It is currently valued at $44 billion as a private company. 8,000 people work at Twitter. The company was founded in 2006.
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local_atm Financials
| Valuation | 🦄$44.0 billion |
| Most recent funding date | ✅8 months ago |
| Total funding | $2.1 billion |
| Value 'created' (valuation - funding) | +$41.9 billion |
| Valuation per employee | $5.5 million TrueUp Rank #389 |
phonelink Products
| Top products | - Twitter |
| Other important products | - Periscope |
| Primary customer type | emoji_people B2C+business B2B |
emoji_people Culture
| Glassdoor employee reviews | 58% would recommend Twitter to a friend (1,961 reviews) worse than 86% of tech co's 26% approve of the CEO Elon Musk (163 reviews) worse than 99% of tech co's |
| Company mission | "To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers" |
| Companies founded by former employees | - Square (founded 2009) |
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code Open Source
| Open source citizenship | sentiment_very_satisfiedsentiment_very_satisfied Outstanding TrueUp Rank #18 |
| Top open source projects | ★ 160.7ktwbs / bootstrap ★ 16.5ktwitter / typeahead.js |
rule Policies
| % of open jobs that are remote | 4% |
| home_work Remote work policy | Fully remote work is rare |
| Same pay everywhere? (same work, same pay) | sentiment_very_dissatisfiedNo |
| public H1B sponsorships approved in 2021 | 39 TrueUp Rank #50 |
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history Other info
Associated billionaires (source:Forbes) | $4.3B - Jack Dorsey $1.8B - Evan Williams |
| IPO date | Nov 7, 2013 (9 years ago) |
| Top owners at IPO | 12.0% - Evan Williams 6.7% - Benchmark 4.9% - Jack Dorsey 1.6% - Richard Costolo |
| Founder ownership at IPO | 16.9% |
| Implied founder equity split | 71% - Evan Williams 29% - Jack Dorsey |
| Unsuccessful products trending_down | - Vine |