Jack Patrick Dorsey was born on November 19,1976 and is an American Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and programmer who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc.
52 Facts About Jack Dorsey
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Jack Dorsey is a co-founder of Bluesky, PBLLC, where he currently sits on the board of directors, with Jay Graber serving as CEO.
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Jack Dorsey's father is Tim Dorsey and his mother is Marcia Dorsey.
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Jack Dorsey is partly of Italian descent on his mother's side.
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Jack Dorsey's father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker.
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Jack Dorsey was raised Catholic, and his uncle is a Catholic priest in Cincinnati.
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Jack Dorsey came up with the idea that eventually became Twitter while studying at New York University.
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In 2000, Jack Dorsey started his company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web.
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When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Jack Dorsey wondered whether the software's user status output could be shared easily among friends.
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Jack Dorsey approached Odeo, which at the time happened to be interested in text messaging.
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Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone co-founded Odeo, later renamed Obvious Corporation, which then spun off Twitter, Inc Jack Dorsey became Twitter's Chief Executive Officer.
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Jack Dorsey reportedly lost his position for leaving work early to enjoy other pursuits, such as yoga and fashion design.
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Jack Dorsey described the commercial use of Twitter and its API as two things that could lead to paid features.
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Jack Dorsey's three guiding principles, which he says the company shares, are simplicity, constraint, and craftsmanship.
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On October 16,2008, Williams took over as CEO, while Jack Dorsey became chairman of the board.
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Jack Dorsey responded to a request from Cohen to delay the maintenance so that it would not affect the revolution in Iran, because Iranians were using Twitter to communicate and coordinate.
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In February 2010, Jack Dorsey was part of another State Department delegation, this time to Russia.
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Jack Dorsey assumed the post of interim CEO upon Costolo's departure.
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Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO on October 5,2015.
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In May 2016, Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would not count photos and links in the 140-character limit to free up more space for text.
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On November 22,2016, Jack Dorsey was briefly suspended from his own Twitter account with 3.9 million followers.
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In March 2018, Jack Dorsey announced that an improved version of the verification system would be coming to Twitter.
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In September 2018, Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Jack Dorsey met privately with US President Donald Trump at the White House and discussed Trump's concerns that Twitter had limited or removed some of his Twitter followers, and those of conservatives.
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Jack Dorsey had been making a concerted effort to dampen the effect that Twitter had on political elections, which entailed banning all political ads.
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Jack Dorsey announced that, as of November 22,2019, Twitter would ban all political advertising.
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In October 2020, Jack Dorsey was one of several tech firm CEOs subpoenaed by the US Senate Commerce Committee.
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Jack Dorsey announced his departure from the role of Twitter's CEO on November 29,2021.
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Jack Dorsey was replaced by the company's former CTO Parag Agrawal, who took over as CEO effective immediately.
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Jack Dorsey will continue to lead as the CEO of Block, Inc In May 2022, Jack Dorsey left the board of directors of the social network.
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Jack Dorsey grew from 10 employees in December 2009 to over 100 by June 2011.
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Jack Dorsey is CEO of Square, Inc On October 14,2015, Square filed for an IPO to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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In May 2020, Jack Dorsey announced that employees of Square would permanently become remote workers.
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On December 1,2021, CEO Jack Dorsey officially changed the name of the platform to Block, Inc This was due in part to his interest in the blockchain as well as the new name encompassing the various businesses better than the current name, which is mostly associated with its merchant-payment services.
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Jack Dorsey is a co-founder of Bluesky Social, a Twitter spin-off developing a decentralized social networking protocol and app.
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In 2013, Jack Dorsey expressed to CNN an admiration for Michael Bloomberg, and said that he aspires to become mayor of New York City.
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Jack Dorsey served as a judge for Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in 2011.
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On December 24,2013, Jack Dorsey was announced as a new member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company.
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Jack Dorsey is a board member of the Berggruen Institute's Governance Center.
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Jack Dorsey gives advice in a chapter of Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
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Jack Dorsey is a vocal Bitcoin advocate, and has spoken at Bitcoin conferences such as "The B Word".
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Jack Dorsey has said that if he were not working on Twitter and Square, he would be working on Bitcoin.
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Jack Dorsey endorses and financially supported the development of the Nostr social networking protocol.
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In 2012, Jack Dorsey moved to the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco.
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In 2015, Jack Dorsey said he began his mornings with meditation.
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In late 2017, Dorsey completed ten days of meditation known as Vipassana taught by followers of S N Goenka.
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In November 2018, Jack Dorsey went on a birthday Vipassana meditation trip to Myanmar.
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In 2019, Jack Dorsey contributed financially to the campaigns of Democratic 2020 presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang.
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Until 2021, Jack Dorsey applied "world leader" exceptions that enabled President Donald Trump to post content on Twitter that would normally be removed or generate sanctions per the platform's rules.
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In March 2016, Jack Dorsey fully funded about 600 Missouri public school projects registered at DonorsChoose.
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Jack Dorsey committed to funding COVID-19 relief, girls' education and health, and universal basic income.
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Jack Dorsey has donated $24 million to over 40 different grantees for relief efforts.