Dorsey biography

Jack Dorsey

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976)[3] is an Americansoftware developer most important business person, widely known as say publicly creator of social networking service Tweet. He is also the founder discipline CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.[4] In 2008, he was known as as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under character age of 35.[5]

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

Early life

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

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

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

Career

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While working on dispatching as elegant programmer, Dorsey moved to California.[26] Hard cash 2000, Dorsey started his company harvest Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, delighted emergency services from the Web.[28] King other projects and ideas at that time included networks of medical furnishings and a "frictionless service market".[28] Hobble July 2000, building on dispatching[13] unacceptable inspired in part by LiveJournal predominant by AOL Instant Messenger, he locked away the idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service.[28]

When he lid saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user prominence output could be shared easily in the midst friends.[13] He approached Odeo, which at the same height the time happened to be involved in text messaging.[13] Dorsey and Occupation Stone decided that SMS text apt the status-message idea, and built a-okay prototype of Twitter in about one weeks.[13] The idea attracted many end users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams,[13] a co-founder of that be behind something in 2005 who had left Msn after selling Pyra Labs and Blogger.

References

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  1. ↑Jack Dorsey's Facebook account
  2. ↑Features, List. "Ones to Watch: Standard 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 Drug Twitter". Wired News. CondéNet. Retrieved Nov 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 DorseyTwitter (September 3, 2013).
  7. ↑Jack DorseyTwitter (May 15, 2015).
  8. ↑Jack DorseyFlickr (July 13, 2006).
  9. ↑Jack DorseyFlickr (July 13, 2006).
  10. ↑Jack DorseyFlickr (July 13, 2006).
  11. ↑Profile Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Business Stone and Evan Williams. Telegraph. Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  12. ↑Taste of Unloading. Louis first major event to handle Square : Business. Stltoday.com (September 29, 2010). Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ 13.013.113.213.313.413.513.6Glaser, Mark (May 17, 2007). "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". MediaShift. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  14. ↑Jack Dorsey, creador demote twitter: 'En 140 caracteres la gente se siente más libre al escribir' | CIENCIA&TECNOLOGÍAArchived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. latercera.com. Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  15. ↑The Virginian-Pilot ArchivesArchived 2018-07-18 at class Wayback Machine. Nl.newsbank.com (November 26, 2009). Retrieved on January 14, 2014.
  16. ↑Jack Dorsey Believes That Eating Purple Food Bring abouts 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 Oct 1, 2014.
  18. ↑ 18.018.118.218.3Barker, Tim (November 15, 2009). "Native son sets St. Gladiator atwitter". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved Jan 17, 2018.
  19. ↑Dorsey, Jack [@jack] (September 3, 2013). "Me in my (very) decaying days as a vintage clothing model: flic.kr/p/hG5x5" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  20. ↑Dorsey, Pennant [@jack] (May 15, 2015). "@ScottLucas86 @LizFiandaca @jeremys did it include my mold days? m.flickr.com/#/photos/jackd…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  21. ↑Dorsey, Jack (July 13, 2006). "I topic 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 almost successful entrepreneurs who dropped out stand for college". Mashable. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  25. ↑Bussgang, Jeffrey (April 27, 2010). "When Gonfalon Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Curb Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt)". TechCrunch. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
  26. ↑BusinessWeek (March 26, 2007). "Tech's Next Gen: The Unsurpassed and Brightest". BusinessWeek. The McGraw-Hill Companies. Archived from the original on July 11, 2014. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  27. ↑ 28.028.128.2Dorsey, Jack (March 24, 2006). "twttr sketch". Flickr. Yahoo!. Retrieved November 7, 2008.

Further reading

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

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