Jack Dorsey

 BIOGRAPHY OF JACK DORSEY

Jack Dorsey an American Web developer and entrepreneur and a philanthropist who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter with Evan Williams and Christopher Stone, cofounded the online microblogging service Twitter in (2006). Twitter is a social networking website  And also the  CEO of blockchain inc a financial payment.

 CHILDHOOD

JACK Dorsey was born November 19, 1976 (age 45) in Saint Louis Missouri united states to his parents  Marcia Dorsey [ mother] and Tim Dorsey [father] jack grew up in the middle class alongside his brothers Andrew and Dannie Dorsey.

Jack was an observant child who had a speech impediment and as a result of this, he was always an indoor developing fascination for simplicity as an introvert.

Jack was able to overcome his shyness by taking part in oratory competitions severally his results proved abortive, finally, he scaled through by speaking in front of the public.

Jack was raised a catholic his uncle is a priest. As a teenager he loved spending time with computers, analyzing, and understanding his ambition was to draw a live map of new york city.

His father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker. . In his younger days, Dorsey worked occasionally as a fashion model By age 14, 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.

EDUCATION

He attended Bishop DuBourg High School Dorsey enrolled at the University of Missouri–Rolla in 1995 and attended for two-plus years before transferring to New York University in 1997.

However, he dropped out two years later, one semester short of graduating. just to work on the idea that eventually became Twitter while studying at NYU.

During the summer of 1991, Jack joined the Maria digital publishing company he went on to lead a team of thirties.

EARLY LIFE

While working on dispatching as a programmer, Dorsey moved to California. In 2000, Dorsey started his company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web.

His other projects and ideas at this time included networks of medical devices and a “frictionless service market”. In July 2000, building on dispatching, he had the idea for a Web-based real-time status/short message communication service.

When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software’s user status output could be shared easily among friends.

He approached Odeo, which at the time happened to be interested in text messaging.[ Dorsey and Biz Stone decided that SMS text suited the status-message idea, and built a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks.

The idea attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams, a co-founder of that firm in 2005 who had left Google after selling

 CAREER 

Williams, Stone, and Noah Glass co-founded Obvious Corporation, which then spun off Twitter, Inc., with Dorsey as the Chief Executive Officer.

As CEO, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by venture capitalists. He reportedly lost his position for leaving work early to enjoy other pursuits, such as yoga and fashion design.

As the service began to grow in popularity, Dorsey chose the improvement of uptime as a top priority, even over creating revenue—which, as of 2008, Twitter was not designed to earn.

Dorsey described the commercial use of Twitter and its API as two things that could lead to paid features. His three guiding principles, which he says the company shares, are simplicity, constraint, and craftsmanship.

On October 16, 2008, Williams took over as CEO, while Dorsey became chairman of the board. During his time as chairman, Dorsey joined several State Department delegations, including a trip to Iraq in April 2009, led by Jared Cohen.

In November, when Iranians took to the streets in the Green Revolution, Twitter was scheduled to conduct maintenance of its site, which would entail temporarily shutting down Twitter’s servers.

Dorsey responded to a request from Cohen to delay the maintenance so that it would not affect the revolution in Iran because Iranians were using Twitter to communicate and coordinate.

In February 2010, Dorsey was part of another State Department delegation, this time to Russia On March 28, 2011, he returned to Twitter as executive chairman after Dick Costolo replaced Williams as CEO On June 10, 2015.

Costolo announced his resignation as CEO, effective July 1, 2015. Dorsey assumed the post of interim CEO upon Costolo’s departure.

He was named permanent CEO on October 5, 2015. On the day after the controversy about Twitter’s new algorithms for tweets, Dorsey said it was a hoax.

In May 2016, Dorsey announced that Twitter would not count photos and links in the 140-character limit to free up more space for text.

This was an attempt to entice new users, since the number of tweets per day had dropped to about 300 million in January 2016 from about 500 million in September 2013 and its peak of 661 million in August 2014.

In October 2015 he once again became CEO at Twitter while also remaining as Square’s CEO.

On November 22, 2016, Dorsey was briefly suspended from his own Twitter account with 3.9 million followers. After restoring the account, Dorsey tweeted that the suspension was due to an “internal mistake“.

In February 2017, Dorsey and Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani matched a $530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised by Twitter staffers. Their match brought the total donation to $1.59 million.

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In March 2018, Dorsey announced that an improved version of the verification system would be coming to Twitter.

The purpose of redesigning verification was to let people verify more facts about themselves, emphasizing proof of identity.

The overhaul was not in place before the U.S midterm election of 2018 to help in verifying the identities of the candidates.

In September 2018, Dorsey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside

In 2009 Dorsey co-founded and became CEO of Square, a mobile-payments venture that offered devices and software to facilitate credit card transactions.

It launched in 2010 and by 2012 had more than two million users. Square initially was available only in North America, but it expanded to overseas markets in 2013 when its services became available in Japan.

That year Dorsey also became a member of Disney Company’s board of directors. During his second stint with Twitter.

The company faced growing criticism about its efforts to limit access to objectionable content. It drew particular ire from conservatives, especially in 2020 when Twitter permanently banned U.S. Pres. Donald Trump for tweets that were deemed to be in violation of Twitter’s policy against the glorification of violence.

This came amid increased calls for government regulations on social media. In 2021 Dorsey resigned as CEO of Twitter, saying, in part, that being a “founder-led” company was “severely limiting and a single point of failure.

See Also: Tim Cook Biography

 PERSONAL LIFE

Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by venture capitalists. He reportedly lost his position for leaving work early to enjoy other pursuits, such as yoga and fashion design.

As the service began to grow in popularity, Dorsey chose the improvement of uptime as a top priority, even over creating revenue—which, as of 2008, Twitter was not designed to earn.

Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim McKelvey, developed a small business platform to accept debit and credit card payments on a mobile device called Square, released in May 2010.

The small, square-shaped device attaches to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Android devices via the headphone jack, and as a mini card reader, allows a person to swipe their card, choose an amount to transfer to the recipient, and then sign their name for confirmation.

Square is also a system for sending paperless receipts via text message or email and is available as a free app for iOS and Android OS. The company grew from 10 employees in December 2009 to over 100 by June 2011.

Square’s office is on Market Street in San Francisco. On October 14, 2015, Square filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

As of that date, Dorsey owned 24.4 percent of the company. In March 2020 the FDIC permitted Square to open a bank. It announced plans to launch Square Financial Services in 2021.

In May 2020, Dorsey announced that employees for Square would work from home permanently.

In 2020, Square began withholding for months up to 30 percent of the funds that merchants collected from customers using its Cash App.

On December 1, 2021, CEO Jack Dorsey officially changed the name of the platform to Block, Inc. This was due in part to his interest in the blockchain as well as the new name encompassing the various businesses better than the current name, which is mostly associated with its merchant-payment services.

He reportedly resides in san Francisco his house has a view that enables him a view of marvel designs.

RELATIONSHIP

Jack has never been, married before but he has high strings profile relationship, he has before been spotted out with kate greer with whom he had a long on and off the relationship, and also with lily cole a British model actress. He doesn’t have a kid.

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NETWORTH

Jack Dorsey is the 690th richest person in the globe and 241st in the US and worth over USD 1,44BILLION.