“I can’t explain it. It’s weird,” Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell said. After losing his job at Twitter when Elon Musk took over, the former global head of Social & Editorial didn’t want to rest — he wanted to build. “Coming straight out of it, I was just like, ‘Oh, it’s time. It’s time to build, whether we get support or not.’”
Luckily for Terrell, his new social media app Spill has already raised a $2.75 million seed round, the company announced today. Since revealing the project in mid-December, Spill reached 60,000 handle reservations.
Spill currently employs less than 10 people and has three strategic advisors, including former Twitter design chief Dantley Davis, #OscarsSoWhite creator and DEI advocate April Reign, and civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson. Serving as CTO is DeVaris Brown, a former …
