Jack Dorsey

@Co-founder of Twitter, Facts and Family ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jack Dorsey is an American businessman who co-founded Twitter Missouri American New York University IT & Software Entrepreneurs Engineers Computer Engineers ISTP Scorpio Celebrities Jack Dorsey is an American businessman who co-founded Twitter. Twitter, an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages called "tweets", is one of the ten most-visited websites in the world. Dorsey is also the founder of Square, a mobile payments company that markets several software and hardware payments products. A computer programmer by profession, he became interested in dispatch routing while still in his teens. He loved computers from as long as he can remember and spent hours studying the IBM computer model available at that time. He was fascinated with the concept of coordinating taxicabs, couriers, emergency services, and other fleets of vehicles and wanted to create a live map of his city, displaying the vehicles in motion as small moving red dots. He was just 15 when he wrote a program for dispatching taxis and firefighting services. He went on to study at the Missouri University of Science and Technology before shifting to the New York University where he first came up with the idea for Twitter. He dropped out before receiving his degree to follow his passion. Teaming up with a few friends, he launched Twitter in 2006.

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Birthday: November 19, 1976 Nationality: American Famous: Co-founder of Twitter, Software Entrepreneurs, it, New York University, IT & Software Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Computer Engineers, ISTP City/State: Missouri Universities: New York University Bishop DuBourg High School Missouri University of Science and Technology New York University Polytechnic Institute of New York University Notable Alumnis: New York University Founder / Co-Founder: Twitter Inc. Square Inc. Information Detail Birthday November 19, 1976 Nationality American Famous Co-founder of Twitter, Software Entrepreneurs, it, New York University, IT & Software Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Computer Engineers, ISTP City/State Missouri Universities New York University Bishop DuBourg High School Missouri University of Science and Technology New York University Polytechnic Institute of New York University Notable Alumnis New York University Founder / Co-Founder Twitter Inc. Square Inc. Birth Place St. Louis Height 180cm Gender Male Father Tim Dorsey Mother Marcia Dorsey Net Worth $1.89 billion as of 2017 Sun Sign Scorpio Born in St. Louis Famous as Co-Founder of Twitter

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Jack Dorsey has dated many women including British model Lily Cole and yoga instructor Kate Greer. Unsplash Personal Life

Jack Dorsey was born on November 19, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, to Marcia Smith and Tim Dorsey. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

His father was an engineer of medical equipment and worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers. As a result of his father’s job which required the family to move frequently from one place to another, young Jack developed a love for maps. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He went to Bishop du Bourg High School in St. Louis, Missouri. He was known to be a quiet boy as he suffered from stuttering. Jack was determined to overcome this challenge and participated in a variety of oratory competitions and was finally able to speak normally. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He developed an early interest in computers and was a member of his school’s computer club. He also spent considerable time studying the available model of IBM computers. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

His childhood fascination with maps developed into a serious hobby in his teenage. He became interested in the challenges of coordinating the taxicabs, delivery vans, ambulances, etc. and created software programs for taxi dispatching and firefighting services when he was just 15. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Jack Dorsey started working as a programmer and moved to Oakland, California in 2000 in search of better career prospects. He started a company to dispatch taxis, couriers and emergency services using his dispatch software. Unsplash Career

During this time he also started getting serious about his idea for a short message communication service that would update his friends about his status in real-time. Unsplash Career

Meanwhile his company failed and Dorsey struggled for the next few years. He made his living by freelancing and even went to massage therapy courses. However, he never forgot his dream of creating the short message service he had envisioned. Unsplash Career

He approached Odeo, a directory and search destination website, which was showing interest in text messaging. He managed to attract the interest of Odeo co-founder Evan Williams and one of the company’s executives, Biz Stone. Unsplash Career

In October 2006, Dorsey, along with Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and some other members of Odeo, formed Obvious Corporation which later evolved into “Twitter”. Within two weeks Dorsey created a simple site where users could instantly post short messages of 140 characters or less called “tweets”. Unsplash Career

Jack Dorsey is best known as the co-founder of online social networking service Twitter. Launched in 2006, the service became extremely popular within months and as of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users and more than 25 offices around the world. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	November 19, 1976
Nationality	American
Famous	Co-founder of Twitter, Software Entrepreneurs, it, New York University, IT & Software Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Computer Engineers, ISTP
City/State	Missouri
Universities	New York University Bishop DuBourg High School Missouri University of Science and Technology New York University Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Notable Alumnis	New York University
Founder / Co-Founder	Twitter Inc. Square Inc.
Birth Place	St. Louis
Height	180cm
Gender	Male
Father	Tim Dorsey
Mother	Marcia Dorsey
Net Worth	$1.89 billion as of 2017
Sun Sign	Scorpio
Born in	St. Louis
Famous as	Co-Founder of Twitter

Jack Dorsey

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Nov 19, 1976

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