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Jack Dorsey
CEO, TwitterBirth DetailsNovember 19, 1976 | St. Louis, Missouri, United States
NationalityAmerican
LeagueEntrepreneur
EducationMissouri University of Science & Technology; New York University (dropout from both)
Net Worth$6.8 billion (as of July 13, 2020)
Jack Dorsey's Assets:
Jack Dorsey's Journey so far ...
Before you go ...
- Stake in Twitter
- Stake in Square
Jack Dorsey's Journey so far ...
- Growing up, Jack Dorsey was deeply interested in maps and how cities function which led him to develop a taxi-dispatching software as a teenager
- At the age of 17, he was hired by a major dispatching company in Manhattan after he hacked their website to point out some gaping holes in their security system and offered to work as a dispatch software developer
- He later partnered with the company’s CEO and moved to San Francisco to build an Internet-based company that dealt with the dispatching of couriers, ambulances as well as taxis
- In 2000, Dorsey developed a program which combined the capabilities of a dispatch software and text messages to reach out to other people. The software later laid the foundation for the development of Twitter
- In the meanwhile, his foremost internet venture was struggling and he had left it to work for a podcasting company called Odeo
- Finally, in 2006, he, along with Odeo co-founder Evan Williams and Christopher Stone, built a social networking platform which eventually came to be known as Twitter
- Dorsey was named CEO of the company and he sent out the first-ever message (which we now know as tweets) on the platform on March 21, 2006
- An untoward event followed a couple of years later when Dorsey had to step down as CEO, but continued to serve as the chairman of the company
- He soon bounced back and co-founded Square -- a platform which allows users to receive credit card payments using a small device -- in 2009
- Both his ventures were rapidly gaining success and in July 2012, Dorsey became a billionaire
- Twitter went public in November 2013 raising $1.8 billion
- The same year, Dorsey joined Walt Disney as one of its board members
- He was reinstated as the CEO of Twitter in 2015
- Square too went public in 2015 with the value of its shares rising 45% on the first day of trading
- Currently, he owns around 2% of Twitter and 13% of Square, and is one of the most influential tech leaders in the world
Before you go ...
- He is a certified masseur
- Reports suggest that Dorsey was a punk rock fan in his younger days
- Dorsey gave away $100 million worth his Twitter shares to employees in May 2016
Last Updated: 12/02/2021
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