Jack Dorsey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jack Dorsey
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Nov 19, 1976(1976-11-19)
Age	48
Birthplace	St. Louis
Country	United States
Birth City	Missouri
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jack Dorsey Biography

Jack Dorsey is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on November 19, 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Twitter. In 2012, the Wall Street Journal named him the Innovator of the Year.

He and his fellow Twitter executives turned down an offer from Mark Zuckerberg to purchase Twitter early on.

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 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.

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 Pyra Labs and Blogger.

He grew up in St. Louis with his parents Marcia and Tim. He previously dated model and actress Lily Cole.

Jack Dorsey Net Worth

Jack Dorsey is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jack Dorsey 's net worth $3 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended both Missouri University of Science and Technology and New York University.

In 2010, after temporarily leaving Twitter, he launched Square, a mobile payments solution that allowed vendors to charge consumers with their iPhone. He returned to Twitter as CEO in 2015.

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.

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Who is Jack Dorsey Dating?

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Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Tim and Marcia (née Smith) Dorsey. He is of English, Irish, and Italian descent. His father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker. He was raised Catholic, and his uncle is a Catholic priest in Cincinnati. He attended the Catholic Bishop DuBourg High School. In his younger days, Dorsey worked occasionally as a fashion model. 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. Dorsey attended the University of Missouri–Rolla for two-plus years (1995–97) before transferring to New York University, but he dropped out in 1999, one semester short of graduating. He came up with the idea that he developed as Twitter while studying at NYU.

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Jack Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jack Dorsey celebrates birthday on November 19 of every year.

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. In September 2012, Business Insider magazine valued Square Inc. at US$3.2 billion. Dorsey is CEO of Square, Inc. On October 14, 2015, Square filed for an IPO to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. As of that date, Dorsey owned 24.4% of the company.

How much does Jack Dorsey make from Twitter?

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who stepped down as CEO late last year, has long declined to take a salary from the social media platform, instead only taking a de minimis $1.40 annual paycheck. However, Dorsey owned 2.4 percent of the company, or about 18,042,428 shares, which Musk would be buying for $54.20 each.

Who owned Twitter before Elon Musk?

Even before Elon Musk brought the circus to Twitter’s boardroom, Jack Dorsey had a complicated legacy at the company he co-founded. Dorsey undoubtedly helped build Twitter into a highly influential enterprise with $5 billion in annual revenue during his two stints as CEO.

Who is the real founder of Twitter?

The history of Twitter Twitter emerged from the podcasting venture Odeo, which was founded in 2004 by Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. (Williams and Stone had previously worked at Google, and Williams had created the popular Web authoring tool Blogger.)

What did Jack Dorsey do for Twitter?

Jack Dorsey, (born November 19, 1976, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.), American Web developer and entrepreneur who, with Evan Williams and Christopher Stone, cofounded (2006) the online microblogging service Twitter. As a teenager, Dorsey created taxi-dispatching software that was adopted by taxicab companies.

Who owns the most Twitter stock?

StockholderStakeShares owned
The Vanguard Group, Inc.| 10.38%| 79,268,380
SSgA Funds Management, Inc.| 4.78%| 36,499,270
BlackRock Fund Advisors| 4.70%| 35,900,294
Morgan Stanley Investment Managem…| 3.20%| 24,462,601