Jack Dorsey Short Biography

Jack Dorsey He is a co-founder of Twitter. He was born on November 19, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. His father's name was Tim Dorsey, and mother's name was Marcia Dorsey. His father was an engineer of medical equipment and worked for a company 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. He went to Bishop DuBourg 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. 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. 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. After high school, he enrolled at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Eventually he transferred to New York University. It was here that he came up with the idea of sharing short messages with friends easily in order to update them on his status. He did not stay long enough in the university to complete his degree and dropped out. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Initially Dorsey served as Twitter's CEO and in 2008, Williams took over the role of CEO while Dorsey became chairman of the board. The company grew rapidly and within five years of its founding, Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day. In 2009, Dorsey teamed up with fellow entrepreneur and computer science engineer Jim McElvey to form Square Inc. Primarily started as a mobile payments company, Square eventually branched into financial and merchant services as well. The company is a fast-growing one and Dorsey serves as its CEO. Jack Dorsey has dated many women, including British model Lily Cole and yoga instructor Kate Greer, but did not married. My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction. Said Jack Dorsey.