Jack Patrick Dorsey

Experience

Short Summary

• CEO at Twitter and Square, Inc
  

  
  

  1. Residence: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. San Francisco, California, U.S.

  2. Education at University of Missouri–Rolla(transferred out); New York University (dropped out)

  3. Occupation: Programmer, internet entrepreneur(transferred out); New York University (dropped out)

  4. Known for: Co-founding Twitter & Square, Inc.

  5. Salary: ⚡️ Square, Inc. $2.75 (2017) 🥇 Twitter $0 (2017)

  6. Net worth US$5.5 billion (January 2019)

  7. Board member:

     • at two billion Companies:
       Twitter Square

Back then

• Some time in 1976

  Was born on November 19, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, to Marcia and Tim Dorsey.

  --> He is an Italian descent; his mother was a homemaker while his father worked for a company which developed mass spectrometers.

• Some time in 1990

  First open source software.

  --> He was interested in dispatch routing since he was thirteen years old. Many taxi cab companies still use his open source software he created when he was jus the age of 14.

• Some time in 2000

  First company

  --> He started his company of dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web platform in Oakland. His ideas and other projects included networks of medical devices. He then was inspired and got an idea for a Web-based real-time short message communication service. He after implementing instant messaging, he wondered that whether his software’s user status can be shared to his friends easily. He then approached Odeo, the now-defunct Silicon Valley Company. During that time, Odeo was one of the interesting company in text messaging. Dorsey partnered with Biz Stone and build a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks.

• Some time in 2008

  Left CEO position for while to practice yoga and fashion designing.

  --> Odeo co-founder Evan Williams, Stone, Noah and Dorsey started a new company called Obvious with Dorsey as the CEO. Obvious was later evolved into Twitter Inc. Dorsey left the position of Chief Executive Officer for a while to practice yoga and fashion designing. On 16 October 2008, Williams took over the role of CEO while Dorsey became chairman of the board.

• Some time in 2011

  Came back ^HOHOHO!!!

  --> After Dick Costolo replaced Williams as the CEO, he returned to Twitter as Executive Chairman on 28 March 2011. Twitter began to grow in popularity and created revenue as of 2008.

• Some time in 2013

  Fairy Tale Story began 😄😄😄

  --> Jack Dorsey was named the new member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company. He was interviewed by Lara Logan and Producer Tom Anderson for the segment of CBS' 60 Minutes, titled "The Innovator: Jack Dorsey".

• couldn't do much really for the first few years...

• 19^thNovember 1976

  Born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. ^{— Thanks, mom and dad!}