A lot can happen over a cuppa: How Jack Dorsey stopped Google from poaching a former Twitter intern

Two days after reports that activist investor Elliott Management Corp had pushed for the removal of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey as CEO, hundreds of Twitter employees took to the platform to tweet their support for the founder and share their memories of him using the hashtag #WeBackJack.

One story that stood out in particular was a former intern turned software engineer at Twitter who said Dorsey was the reason he turned down a Google job in favour of Twitter.

According to Tayo Olukoya, a senior software engineer at the microblogging platform and a UC Berkeley alumnus, when Dorsey found out that he was considering a job at Google instead of returning to Twitter, the CEO invited him out for coffee to personally try to convince him to stay. “Yes, the CEO of 2 big companies took the time to come convince a New Grad to join,” he recalled.



It wasn’t just employees that rushed to support the founder after news of the potential ouster broke. Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., also tweeted his support for Dorsey, saying he had a good heart.