Hatching Twitter

Daniel May steers this audiobook with energy and confidence, narrating as if each turn of events is as surprising to him as it is to the listener. There are plenty of crazy characters to portray as well, including the back-stabbing Twitter founders themselves, IPO-crazed investors, Snoop Dogg, and Mark Zuckerberg. May obviously researched the players, and he does an especially convincing job of voicing cofounder Jack Dorsey. As the book points out, the company's history was written by those with the loudest voices, and the Twitter juggernaut was not the result of a company strategy--it was in spite of it. Fast-paced narration, great storytelling, and a truly bizarre story make this a standout among the recent books about the founders of tech companies. R.W.S. (c) AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine