[Thread] A founder of a tech startup describes how he made ~$200K last year as a side hustle by ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists (@bitech)

Ellen Thomas / Insider:
Internal memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January, says the move has “nothing to do” with Bret Taylor’s departure  —  Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January.  —  Butterfield posted his announcement …

Kali Hays / Insider:
SEC filing: Jack Dorsey has agreed to rollover his remaining 2.4% in Twitter, worth over $1B, into X Holdings, an amount Elon Musk won’t have to pay  —  – Dorsey left his second stint as CEO of Twitter last year.  — A co-founder of the platform and friend of Musk, he’s been supportive of the $44 billion takeover.

Insider:
Source: a16z’s Future is shutting down; Future hasn’t published a new article in months, most of its editorial staffers have left, and its newsletter is defunct  —  Future was the next big thing in media.  —  Launched in June of 2021, it was billed as a buzzy new tech publication …

Peter Guest / Insider:
A look at Saudi Arabia’s Kollona Amn app, launched in 2017 to let its citizens inform on activists, as the country expands the use of surveillance technology  —  – Saudi Arabian citizens are reporting activists that speak out against the government on the Kollona Amn app.

Hasan Chowdhury / Insider:
Northzone, the European VC firm that backed Spotify and Klarna, has raised a €1B fund, its largest to date, and will allocate ~40% to later-stage investments  —  – Northzone has raised over 1 billion euros (around $1 billion) for a fresh new fund.  — The new fund will be used …

Kali Hays / Insider:
A comedian, who is a verified user, puts Twitter’s moderation practices to the test by starting the #TrumpIsDead hashtag, which began trending on Tuesday  —  – A comedian intentionally started the claim, in what could be a test for Elon Musk.  — The claim was trending on Twitter.