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Kurt is a journalist with Bloomberg covering the social media industry, including X/Twitter and Meta. He has worked there since 2019, and previously covered the technology and business industries at Recode, Fortune and Mashable.

Kurt grew up near Seattle, went to college at Santa Clara University, and now lives in Denver with his wife and kids. "Battle for the Bird" is his first book. ...more

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Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul

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About an old man who moves to a small town in Georgia and starts buying up portraits of people in the town that were painted by a local artist. Theo gives them away to the subject of each portrait, and makes a lot of new friends and has some heartwar ...more
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