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Jack Dorsey
Dorsey in 2018
Born
Jack Patrick Dorsey

(1976-11-19) November 19, 1976 (age 48)[1]
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation(s)software designer, entrepreneur

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976)[3] is an American software developer and business person, widely known as the creator of social networking service Twitter. He is also the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.[4] In 2008, he was named as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[5]

He worked as a model.[6][7][8][9][10]

Early life

Dorsey was born Jack Patrick Dorsey in St. Louis, Missouri,[11][12] the son of Tim and Marcia (née Smith) Dorsey.[13][14][15] He is of English, Irish, and Italian descent.[16] His father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker.[17]

He was raised Catholic, and his uncle is a Catholic priest in Cincinnati.[18] He attended the Catholic Bishop DuBourg High School. In his younger days, Dorsey worked occasionally as a fashion model.[19][20][21][22][23]

By age fourteen, Dorsey had become interested in dispatch routing. Some of the open-source software he created in the area of dispatch logistics is still used by taxicab companies.[13] Dorsey attended the University of Missouri–Rolla for two-plus years (1995–97)[18] before transferring to New York University, but he dropped out in 1999,[24] one semester short of graduating.[18] He came up with the idea that he developed as Twitter while studying at NYU.[18][25]

Career

While working on dispatching as a programmer, Dorsey moved to California.[26][27] In 2000, Dorsey started his company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web.[28] His other projects and ideas at this time included networks of medical devices and a "frictionless service market".[28] In July 2000, building on dispatching[13] and inspired in part by LiveJournal and by AOL Instant Messenger, he had the idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service.[28]

When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user status output could be shared easily among friends.[13] He approached Odeo, which at the time happened to be interested in text messaging.[13] Dorsey and Biz Stone decided that SMS text suited the status-message idea, and built a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks.[13] The idea attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams,[13] a co-founder of that firm in 2005 who had left Google after selling Pyra Labs and Blogger.

References

  1. ↑ Jack Dorsey's Facebook account
  2. ↑ Features, List. "Ones to Watch: Jack Dorsey". Forbes.
  3. ↑ "Who is Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, Square?". Atlanta Journal Constitution. May 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ Strange, Adario (April 20, 2007). "Flickr Document Reveals Origin Of Twitter". Wired News. CondéNet. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  5. ↑ "TR35 Young Innovator". Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2008. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  6. ↑ Jack Dorsey Twitter (September 3, 2013).
  7. ↑ Jack Dorsey Twitter (May 15, 2015).
  8. ↑ Jack Dorsey Flickr (July 13, 2006).
  9. ↑ Jack Dorsey Flickr (July 13, 2006).
  10. ↑ Jack Dorsey Flickr (July 13, 2006).
  11. ↑ Profile Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Telegraph. Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ Taste of St. Louis first major event to use Square : Business. Stltoday.com (September 29, 2010). Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 Glaser, Mark (May 17, 2007). "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". MediaShift. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  14. ↑ Jack Dorsey, creador de twitter: 'En 140 caracteres la gente se siente más libre al escribir' | CIENCIA&TECNOLOGÍA Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. latercera.com. Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  15. ↑ The Virginian-Pilot Archives. Nl.newsbank.com (November 26, 2009). Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  16. ↑ Jack Dorsey Believes That Eating Purple Food Makes You Healthier. Vanity Fair (March 21, 2012). Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  17. ↑ Robehmed, Natalie (September 30, 2014). "The youngest billionaires on the Forbes 400: 11 under 40". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Barker, Tim (November 15, 2009). "Native son sets St. Louis atwitter". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  19. ↑ Dorsey, Jack [@jack] (September 3, 2013). "Me in my (very) short-lived days as a vintage clothing model: flic.kr/p/hG5x5" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  20. ↑ Dorsey, Jack [@jack] (May 15, 2015). "@ScottLucas86 @LizFiandaca @jeremys did it include my modeling days? m.flickr.com/#/photos/jackd…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  21. ↑ Dorsey, Jack (July 13, 2006). "I read Gray's Anatomy". Flickr.
  22. ↑ Dorsey, Jack (July 13, 2006). "Noele took pictures of me". Flickr.
  23. ↑ Dorsey, Jack (July 13, 2006). "Who needs a nosering?". Flickr.
  24. ↑ Rampton, John (September 22, 2016). "12 of the most successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college". Mashable. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  25. ↑ Bussgang, Jeffrey (April 27, 2010). "When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt)". TechCrunch. Retrieved September 23, 2018. Jack ... moved to New York, transferred to NYU, and started writing dispatch software ... 'They're all reporting constantly where they are and what work they're doing ... I thought that abstraction was so cool that I wanted that same thing for my friends.'
  26. ↑ BusinessWeek (March 26, 2007). "Tech's Next Gen: The Best and Brightest". BusinessWeek. The McGraw-Hill Companies. Archived from the original on July 11, 2014. Retrieved November 5, 2008. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  27. ↑ Dorsey, Jack (April 8, 2009). "To be clear: I didn't attend Cornell (and didn't invent Twitter there)". Twitter. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Dorsey, Jack (March 24, 2006). "twttr sketch". Flickr. Yahoo!. Retrieved November 7, 2008.

Further reading

  • Max, D. T. (October 21, 2013). "Two-hit wonder". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 33. pp. 48–59.

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