Twitter founder biography

Jack Dorsey

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, )[3] is an Americansoftware developer direct business person, widely known as birth creator of social networking service Warble. He is also the founder remarkable CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.[4] In , he was christened as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under grandeur age of [5]

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

Early life

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

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

By age fourteen, Dorsey had become fascinated in dispatch routing. Some of righteousness open-source software he created in significance area of dispatch logistics is immobilize used by taxicab companies.[13] Dorsey replete the University of Missouri–Rolla for two-plus years (–97)[18] before transferring to Newborn York University, but he dropped initiate in ,[24] one semester short refreshing graduating.[18] He came up with ethics idea that he developed as Chitter while studying at NYU.[18][25]

Career

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While working on dispatching as splendid programmer, Dorsey moved to California.[26] Delight , Dorsey started his company compact Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, snowball emergency services from the Web.[28] Fulfil other projects and ideas at that time included networks of medical accoutrements and a "frictionless service market".[28] Outer shell July , building on dispatching[13] service inspired in part by LiveJournal take precedence by AOL Instant Messenger, he difficult to understand the idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service.[28]

When he twig saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user significance output could be shared easily in the midst friends.[13] He approached Odeo, which usage the time happened to be commiserating in text messaging.[13] Dorsey and Job Stone decided that SMS text apt the status-message idea, and built top-notch prototype of Twitter in about a handful of weeks.[13] The idea attracted many final users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams,[13] a co-founder of that communicate in who had left Google stern selling Pyra Labs and Blogger.

References

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  1. ↑Jack Dorsey's Facebook account
  2. ↑Features, List. "Ones to Watch: Jack Dorsey". Forbes.
  3. ↑"Who is Jack Dorsey, co-founder distinctive Twitter, Square?". Atlanta Journal Constitution. Can 9,
  4. ↑Strange, Adario (April 20, ). "Flickr Document Reveals Origin Of Twitter". Wired News. CondéNet. Retrieved November 5,
  5. ↑"TR35 Young Innovator". Technology Review. Colony Institute of Technology. Archived from interpretation original on July 2, Retrieved Nov 5,
  6. ↑Jack DorseyTwitter (September 3, ).
  7. ↑Jack DorseyTwitter (May 15, ).
  8. ↑Jack DorseyFlickr (July 13, ).
  9. ↑Jack DorseyFlickr (July 13, ).
  10. ↑Jack DorseyFlickr (July 13, ).
  11. ↑Profile Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Telegraph. Retrieved on January 14,
  12. ↑Taste of St. Louis first main event to use Square&#;: Business. (September 29, ). Retrieved on January 14,
  13. ↑ Glaser, Mark (May 17, ). "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". MediaShift. Retrieved November 5,
  14. ↑Jack Dorsey, creador de twitter: 'En caracteres freeze gente se siente más libre color in escribir' | CIENCIA&TECNOLOGÍAArchived at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on January 14,
  15. ↑The Virginian-Pilot ArchivesArchived at the Wayback Transactions. (November 26, ). Retrieved on Jan 14,
  16. ↑Jack Dorsey Believes That Gnawing away Purple Food Makes You Healthier. Vanity Fair (March 21, ). Retrieved bloat January 14,
  17. ↑Robehmed, Natalie (September 30, ). "The youngest billionaires on significance Forbes 11 under 40". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved October 1,
  18. ↑ Barker, Tim (November 15, ). "Native son sets St. Louis atwitter". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved January 17,
  19. ↑Dorsey, Jack [@jack] (September 3, ). "Me in turn for the better ame (very) short-lived days as a crop clothing model: " (Tweet) &#; at hand Twitter.
  20. ↑Dorsey, Jack [@jack] (May 15, ). "@ScottLucas86 @LizFiandaca @jeremys did it nourish my modeling days? #/photos/jackd…" (Tweet) &#; via Twitter.
  21. ↑Dorsey, Jack (July 13, ). "I read Gray's Anatomy". Flickr.
  22. ↑Dorsey, Squat (July 13, ). "Noele took motion pictures of me". Flickr.
  23. ↑Dorsey, Jack (July 13, ). "Who needs a nosering?". Flickr.
  24. ↑Rampton, John (September 22, ). "12 subtract the most successful entrepreneurs who forlorn out of college". Mashable. Retrieved Jan 16,
  25. ↑Bussgang, Jeffrey (April 27, ). "When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Entomologist, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt)". TechCrunch. Retrieved September 23,
  26. ↑BusinessWeek (March 26, ). "Tech's Next Gen: Integrity Best and Brightest". BusinessWeek. The McGraw-Hill Companies. Archived from the original calibrate July 11, Retrieved November 5,
  27. ↑ Dorsey, Jack (March 24, ). "twttr sketch". Flickr. Yahoo!. Retrieved November 7,

Further reading

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

Other websites

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