My guest today, Dick Costello, is categorically the only person in Silicon Valley who can say that they have not only run four companies, including a little startup called Twitter, but they have also performed improv comedy on a stage with Steve Correll and other major comedians. We're going to talk about all those

things today, along with what it's really like to be the CEO of a public company and

how you even take a company public.

We're also going to hear Sage advice business leaders have offered Dick over the years and we'll address

then that's been on all of our minds, which is, is there anything Twitter could have done years ago to stop trolls from

commandeering the platform, including a certain someone who goes by the name Real Donald

Trump? So without further ado, I give you Dick Costello.

Thanks for joining me today, Dick. Further ado I give you Dick Costello.

Thanks for joining me today, Dick.

Is this the studio?

This is the, we're at the Beverly Hills Hotel

because we couldn't find an office anywhere.

No, because this is where you do the Vanity Fair Podcast.

This is where I do the Vanity Fair Podcast with my wonderful friend and guest Dick Costello.

Should we jump right in at the Beverly, that's.

We already did.

Here we are in their studio at the Beverly Hills Hotel

on the Terrace, no less.

So, okay, so you've built three incredibly successful companies, maybe four when you count

Twitter.

One of your companies sold to Google for $100 million, you took Twitter public, but

yet every time I see you I feel like you're you're like literally running 5,000 miles a minute.

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