| Jack Dorsey | |
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| Born | 19 November 1976 [1] St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Residence | San Francisco, California,  United States |
| Occupation | software architect, businessperson |
Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter.[2] BusinessWeek called him one of technology's "best and brightest".[3] MIT's Technology Review named him in the TR35, an outstanding innovator under the age of 35.[4]
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Early years
Dorsey grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.[5] By age 14, he was interested in dispatch routing. Some of his open source software in this genre is still in use by taxicab companies.[5]He went to high school at Bishop Dubourg Highschool He attended University of Missouri–Rolla and New York University.[6] While working on dispatching as a programmer he later moved to California.[3][7]
In Oakland in 2000, Dorsey started his company to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web.[8] His other projects and ideas at this time included networks of medical devices and a "frictionless service market".[8] In July 2000, building on dispatching[5] and inspired in part by LiveJournal and possibly by AOL Instant Messenger, he had the idea for the realtime status communication.[8]
When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey had wondered if the software's user status output could be shared among friends easily.[5] He approached Odeo, who at the time happened to be interested in text messaging.[5] Dorsey and Biz Stone decided that SMS text suited the status message idea, and built a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks.[5] The idea attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams[5] who had left Google after selling them Pyra Labs and Blogger.
Twitter, Inc.
Dorsey, Stone and Williams co-founded Obvious which then spun off Twitter, Inc.[5] As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who back the company.[9] On 16 October 2008[10] Williams took over the role of CEO, and Dorsey became chairman of the board.[11]
As the service grew in popularity, Dorsey had to choose improving uptime as top priority,[12] even over creating revenue – which, as of 2008, Twitter was not designed to earn.[13] Dorsey described the commercial use of Twitter and its API as two things that could lead to paid features.[13] His three guiding principles, which are shared by the whole company and through its culture, are simplicity, constraint and craftsmanship.[13]
References
- ^ Jack Dorsey's facebook account
- ^ Strange, Adario (April 20, 2007). "Flickr Document Reveals Origin Of Twitter". Wired News (CondéNet). http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/04/flickr_document.html. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ a b BusinessWeek (staff) (March 26, 2007). "Tech's Next Gen: The Best and Brightest". BusinessWeek (The McGraw-Hill Companies). http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/03/0326_tech_entrepreneurs/source/10.htm. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ "TR35 Young Innovator". Technology Review (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2008. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=700. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Glaser, Mark (May 17, 2007). "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/05/twitter-founders-thrive-on-micro-blogging-constraints137.html. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ Dorsey, Jack (2009-09-18). "2009 Person of the Year ceremony and presentation". Webster University.
- ^ Dorsey, Jack (April 8, 2009). "To be clear: I didn't attend Cornell (and didn't invent Twitter there).". Twitter. http://twitter.com/jack/status/1480648277. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c Dorsey, Jack (March 24, 2006). "twttr sketch". Flickr. Yahoo!. http://flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360/. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
- ^ Miller, Claire Cain (October 16, 2008). "Twitter Sidelines One Founder and Promotes Another". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/ttwitter-sidelines-one-founder-and-promotes-another/#more-1642. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ Miller, Claire Cain (October 20, 2008). "Popularity or Income? Two Sites Fight It Out". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/technology/start-ups/21twitter.html. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ McCarthy, Caroline (October 16, 2008). "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey steps down". CNET News (CBS Interactive). http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10068368-36.html. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ Wagner, Mitch (June 24, 2008). "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: Improved Uptime Is Top Priority". InformationWeek (United Business Media). http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/twitter_ceo_jac.html. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ a b c Wagner, Mitch (June 24, 2008). "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Talks About Its Business Model". InformationWeek (United Business Media). http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/twitter_ceo_jac_2.html. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
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