Book I'm Reading: "Hatching Twitter" by Nick Bilton

Several months earlier, Jack had raised the idea with Crystal and Noah on one of their drunken outings. He'd originally come up with it in early 2000 when he was living in a dingy building called the Biscuit Factory, situated in a deep, dangerous part of Oakland.

The sale had been relatively painless. The initial negotiation between Fred and John Borthwick, an investor who was on Summize's board, occurred while the two were standing next to each other at a bathroom urinal. "Why don't we just join these companies and call it a day?" John said.