Chapter 199: Funding

Fox had assembled a programming team to work on creating a new social media platform, which was clearly meant to be similar to Twitter. However, this wasn’t an easy task. Building this new program from scratch and achieving the desired results required a lot of money and time, along with a process of trial and error. Even the original Twitter had to go through this, and comparing the early versions of Twitter to the version ten years later would make them seem like entirely different things. In other words, even after launching the first version, the platform would need constant updates and new features. Given Fox’s guidance, the progress was actually quite impressive. This was largely because Fox was willing to spend money. His team consisted mostly of MIT students—brilliant minds in computer science. Fox offered them excellent compensation, even profit-sharing, which made them work with great enthusiasm and efficiency. But the real key to their progress was Fox’s guidance. Witho