Jack Dorsey. American computer scientist, programmer and businessman. He got involved in web development as a college student, founder of the social network Twitter in 2006 . Since then, he has served as CEO and Chairman of the Board, in addition to being CEO. It also launched the successful online payment platform Square in 2010 .
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 2 Insertion in Twitter
- 1 Creation of Twitter
- 2 Twitter success
- 3 Beyond Twitter
- 3 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born in St. Louis , Missouri , on November 19 , 1976 . He became interested in computers and communications at a young age and began programming while still a student at Bishop DuBourg High School . He was fascinated by the technological challenge of coordinating the drivers of taxis, delivery vans and other fleets of vehicles who had to remain in constant real-time communication with each other. When he was 15, Dorsey wrote dispatch software for taxi companies that is still in use today.
Insertion in Twitter
Twitter creation
After a brief stay at the Missouri University of Science and Technology , Dorsey transferred to New York University . In the tradition of computer science entrepreneurs like Bill Gates , Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg , who dropped out of college before receiving their degree. Instead, Dorsey moved to Oakland , California , and in 2000 started a company that offers its dispatch software over the Web. Shortly after starting his company, Dorsey came up with the idea for a site that would combine the broad scope of dispatch software with the ease of instant messaging.
Dorsey approached a now-defunct Silicon Valley company called Odeo to launch the concept. “He came to us with this idea:” What if you could share your status with all your friends very easily, so they know what you are doing? ‘” a former Odeo executive told Biz Stone . Dorsey, Stone, and co-founder Evan Williams started a new company, called Obvio , which later became Twitter. Within two weeks, Dorsey had built a simple site where users could instantly send short messages of 140 characters or less, known in Twitter lingo as “tweets.”
The 21 of March of 2006 , Jack Dorsey posted the world first tweet: “just setting up my twttr”. Dorsey was named CEO of the company. Co-founder Evan Williams replaces Dorsey as CEO of Twitter in October 2008 , Dorsey continues as president of the company.
Twitter success
Twitter was initially ridiculed by some as a shallow and selfish tool to convey the minutiae of life. Conan O’Brien even featured a segment called ” Twitter Tracker ” that poked fun at users of the service. In its early days, the site also suffered from frequent service interruptions. But as celebrities and CEOs started using Twitter, it was no longer the weight of so many jokes. Suddenly the head of the ” microblogging ” movement , Twitter became a powerful platform for presidential candidates.
Twitter rose to international prominence after the June 2009 presidential elections in Iran , when thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets to protest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claimed victory . When the government blocked text messaging and the satellite fed on foreign news coverage, Iranian Twitter users flooded the site with real-time updates. An official of the State Department of the United StatesEven emailed Dorsey to request that Twitter delay its scheduled maintenance so that protesters could keep tweets. “It appears that Twitter is playing an important role at a crucial time in Iran. Could you keep it going?” a State Department spokesman said. Twitter complied.
Beyond Twitter
In 2010 , Twitter had more than 105 million users who together tweeted about 55 million times a day. Dorsey, however, had set his sights on other projects. He became an investor in the social networking company Foursquare and started a new company, Square , which allows people to receive credit card payments through a small device connected to their mobile phone or computer. Twitter may have revolutionized the way people communicate, but Dorsey isn’t satisfied yet. “In terms of technology, we are going to see a better and more immediate experience around the everyday things we do in life,” said Dorsey. In 2014 his other company, Square, came out.
