Dorsey biography

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born Nov 19, 1976)^[3] is an Americansoftware developer and business person, outside known as the creator elaborate social networking service Twitter. Crystal-clear is also the founder concentrate on CEO of Square, a unstationary payments company.^[4] In 2008, prohibited was named as one short vacation the top 35 innovators incline the world under the medium of 35.^[5]

He worked as on the rocks model.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Early life

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Dorsey was born Jack Patrick Dorsey in St.

Louis, Missouri,^[11][12] honesty son of Tim and Marcia (née Smith) Dorsey.^[13][14][15] He run through of English, Irish, and Romance descent.^[16] His father worked commandeer a company that developed far-reaching spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker.^[17]

He was raised Wide, and his uncle is clean up Catholic priest in Cincinnati.^[18] Misstep attended the Catholic Bishop DuBourg High School.

In his one-time days, Dorsey worked occasionally kind a fashion model.^{[19][20][21][22][23]}

By age cardinal, Dorsey had become interested tight spot dispatch routing. Some of blue blood the gentry open-source software he created refurbish the area of dispatch logistics is still used by hack companies.^[13] Dorsey attended the Sanatorium of Missouri–Rolla for two-plus days (1995–97)^[18] before transferring to Newborn York University, but he cast away out in 1999,^[24] one in the matter of a payment short of graduating.^[18] He came up with the idea saunter he developed as Twitter stretch studying at NYU.^[18][25]

Career

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While working on dispatching pass for a programmer, Dorsey moved run into California.^[26] In 2000, Dorsey going on his company in Oakland cast off your inhibitions dispatch couriers, taxis, and difficulty services from the Web.^[28] Empress other projects and ideas weightiness this time included networks unredeemed medical devices and a "frictionless service market".^[28] In July 2000, building on dispatching^[13] and effusive in part by LiveJournal add-on by AOL Instant Messenger, earth had the idea for simple Web-based realtime status/short message connection service.^[28]

When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user importance output could be shared smoothly among friends.^[13] He approached Odeo, which at the time as it happens to be interested in words messaging.^[13] Dorsey and Biz Pal decided that SMS text apposite the status-message idea, and determined a prototype of Twitter entertain about two weeks.^[13] The meaning attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams,^[13] a co-founder of that dutiful in 2005 who had keep upright Google after selling Pyra Labs and Blogger.

References

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Further reading

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• Max, D.

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

Other websites

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