{"id":13605,"date":"2013-05-27T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=13605"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:46:16","slug":"twitter-hires-ex-facebook-aurelien-de-sorbay-as-senior-lead-but-not-the-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/05\/twitter-hires-ex-facebook-aurelien-de-sorbay-as-senior-lead-but-not-the-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter hires ex-Facebook Aur\u00e9lien de Sorbay as &#8220;senior lead&#8221; but not the GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13606\" alt=\"carmen_sandiego_a_l\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/carmen_sandiego_a_l.jpg\" width=\"565\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With <a title=\"Pinterest isn\u2019t just looking for a Country Manager in France, they\u2019re already here.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2013\/05\/22\/pinterest-isnt-just-looking-for-a-country-manager-in-france-theyre-already-here\/\">Pinterest on the\u00a0offensive\u00a0in France<\/a>, Twitter is waking up &#8211; especially with their <a title=\"Twitter to hire up to ten in Paris by Spring 2013\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/10\/12\/twitter-to-hire-up-to-ten-in-paris-by-spring-2013\/\">deadline coming up to have a 10-person team in France<\/a> &#8211; and announced last Friday that they have picked up former Facebook Sales team head Aur\u00e9lien de Sorbay. The announcement, which came from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK General Manager Tony Wang<\/a>, specifies that Sorbay will be &#8220;one of our senior leads in France, working with brand partners.&#8221; More specifically, he&#8217;s not the French GM.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aureliencds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Aureliencds<\/a> to Twitter. He&#39;ll be one of our senior leads in France, working with brand partners: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/XR4XEGT8Wu\">http:\/\/t.co\/XR4XEGT8Wu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Wang (@TonyW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyW\/status\/337948543459393536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sorbay confirmed the announcement on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aureliencds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his first ever Tweet<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; confirming also that, despite the rumors, it is not he who will take the role of French GM. Having previously worked at Facebook and Google as an account executive, it&#8217;s no surprise that he hadn&#8217;t gotten on Twitter earlier; nonetheless, given <a title=\"Is Twitter being too picky about who heads up Twitter France?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2013\/03\/05\/is-twitter-being-too-picky-about-who-heads-up-twitter-france\/\">Twitter&#8217;s very particular job description for country manager<\/a>, Sorbay would be too old (in age) and too young (on Twitter) to qualify for the GM job &#8211; although, his experience at the consulate would make him one of the rare Internet sales guys with a public sector background.<\/p>\n<p>While some sources are reporting that Sorbay will indeed be the GM (I&#8217;m looking at you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numerama.com\/magazine\/22925-twitter-france-se-dote-d-un-directeur-general.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Numerama<\/a>), it seems highly unlikely that the GM would deny his position and that a fellow colleague would follow up with a purposefully ambiguous Tweet. More likely, while it&#8217;s possible the social network has already found its GM, it&#8217;s more likely that they&#8217;re asking themselves, &#8220;Where in the World is Twitter&#8217;s French GM?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Pinterest on the\u00a0offensive\u00a0in France, Twitter is waking up &#8211; especially with their deadline coming up to have a 10-person team in France &#8211; and announced last Friday that they have picked up former Facebook Sales team head Aur\u00e9lien de Sorbay. The announcement, which came from UK General Manager Tony Wang, specifies that Sorbay will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":13606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[2980,147],"class_list":["post-13605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-pinterest","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}