A former Twitter engineer says the heavily criticized CEO of the social network has two main problems: money and hubris.

That's the take of Blaine Cook, who now lives in Nelson, but was one of the first people to work in the core of what later became Twitter. It was the sites then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who Cook had worked with on a podcasting company, who cracked the idea and brought Cook on board.

Cook left the network in 2008, and has since engaged in other projects in the intersection of tech and social justice. Now, from his home in the West Kootenay region, Cook is following the non-stop controversies which has surrounded the site, and escalated after tech-billionaire Elon Musk bought it.

"It is crazy to think that you could be in charge of something like that," Cook explained to Kootenay Morning host Darren Davidson in a rare radio interview.

"This is the scale of problem that we have governments and gigantic organizations that are designed to regulate and run, and all of these kinds of things, and he's (Elon Musk) like 'I'll just walk in, I'm so smart.' It's just not possible."

Listen to the full interview with Blaine Cook from Kootenay Morning