Jack Dorsey Biography
Jack Dorsey is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc., as well as the co-founder, principal executive officer, and chairperson of Block, Inc., the developer of the Square financial services platform.
Jack Dorsey Age
Dorsey was born Jack Patrick Dorsey on November 19, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He is 46 years old as of November 2022.
Jack Dorsey Education
Dorsey graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School. Dorsey enrolled at the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1995 and stayed for two years before transferring to New York University in 1997, where he dropped out two years later one semester before graduating.
Jack Dorsey Height
Jack stands at a height of 5’11” (180 cm), tall.
Jack Dorsey Married- Children
Dorsey has dated many women, including British model Lily Cole and yoga instructor Kate Greer.
Jack Dorsey Career
Dorsey began his career as a programmer. In the year 2000, he relocated to Oakland, California in search of better job opportunities. Using his dispatch software, he founded a company that dispatched taxis, couriers, and emergency services. During this time, he also became serious about his idea for a short message communication service that would provide real-time status updates to his friends. Meanwhile, his business failed, and he struggled for several years. He supported himself by freelancing. He even took massage therapy classes. He never gave up on his dream of creating the short message service he had imagined. He approached ‘Odeo,’ a directory and search destination website that was looking for text messaging services.
He was noticed by ‘Odeo’ co-founder Evan Williams and one of the company’s executives, Biz Stone. Dorsey, along with Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and other members of ‘Odeo,’ formed ‘Obvious Corporation,’ which later evolved into Twitter, in October 2006. Dorsey created a simple site in two weeks where users could instantly post short messages called ‘tweets’ of 140 characters or less. Dorsey was initially Twitter’s CEO. Williams took over as CEO in 2008, while Dorsey became chairman of the board. The company expanded quickly. Twitter users sent 50 million tweets per day within five years of its inception. Dorsey founded ‘Square Inc.’ in 2009 with fellow entrepreneur and computer science engineer Jim McKelvey.
Dorsey founded ‘Square Inc.’ in 2009 with fellow entrepreneur and computer science engineer Jim McKelvey. ‘Square,’ which began as a mobile payments company, eventually expanded into financial and merchant services as well. Dorsey is the CEO of this rapidly expanding company. Dorsey was announced as the new member of the board of directors of ‘The Walt Disney Company’ on December 24, 2013.
Jack Dorsey’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 4.8 billion USD as of 2022.