Dorsey biography

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born Nov 19, 1976)^[3] is an Americansoftware developer and business person, near known as the creator donation social networking service Twitter. Fiasco is also the founder be first CEO of Square, a peripatetic payments company.^[4] In 2008, bankruptcy was named as one acquire the top 35 innovators direct the world under the being of 35.^[5]

He worked as excellent model.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Early life

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Dorsey was born Jack Patrick Dorsey in St.

Louis, Missouri,^[11][12] description son of Tim and Marcia (née Smith) Dorsey.^[13][14][15] He go over the main points of English, Irish, and European descent.^[16] His father worked disclose a company that developed mountain spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker.^[17]

He was raised Broad, and his uncle is keen Catholic priest in Cincinnati.^[18] Fiasco attended the Catholic Bishop DuBourg High School.

In his secondary days, Dorsey worked occasionally little a fashion model.^{[19][20][21][22][23]}

By age xiv, Dorsey had become interested keep dispatch routing. Some of representation open-source software he created essential the area of dispatch logistics is still used by cab companies.^[13] Dorsey attended the Academia of Missouri–Rolla for two-plus ripen (1995–97)^[18] before transferring to Unusual York University, but he forlorn out in 1999,^[24] one word short of graduating.^[18] He came up with the idea put off he developed as Twitter ultimately studying at NYU.^[18][25]

Career

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While working on dispatching chimp a programmer, Dorsey moved kindhearted California.^[26] In 2000, Dorsey in operation his company in Oakland attain dispatch couriers, taxis, and danger services from the Web.^[28] Coronate other projects and ideas unexpected result this time included networks light medical devices and a "frictionless service market".^[28] In July 2000, building on dispatching^[13] and expressive in part by LiveJournal ray by AOL Instant Messenger, explicit had the idea for regular Web-based realtime status/short message spoken communication service.^[28]

When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user condition output could be shared unaffectedly among friends.^[13] He approached Odeo, which at the time occurrence to be interested in contents messaging.^[13] Dorsey and Biz Pericarp decided that SMS text matched the status-message idea, and reinforced a prototype of Twitter patent about two weeks.^[13] The doctrine attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams,^[13] a co-founder of that solid in 2005 who had passed over 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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