Jack Dorsey is popularly known as the creator of Twitter, Inc. who is also the founder and CEO of Square, an online payment mobile company. In the year 2012, he was awarded “Innovator of the Year” for technology from The Wall Street Journal. He has also been labeled as Time’s Magazine’s 100 most influential people. He’s always had that vision and quality of a leader. He was born to lead and so he did. He’s an inspiration to many people. In the year 2018, he was named one of the "Best CEOs In The World" by CEOWORLD magazine.
Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin-Friendly Cash App is Now 2nd Most Popular Apple Application
Within a decade since its launch in 2009, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Square has transformed into a $29 billion digital payments giant and the go-to platform for users to send and receive money and buy Bitcoin. On February 3, Dorsey revealed that Square Cash (also known as Cash App), one of the most widely utilized mobile payment applications in the U.S. market, became the 2nd most popular free mobile application on the Apple App Store.
Early Life, Family, Birthday, Education, Siblings, Nationality, Ethnicity, Wikipedia, Bio of Jack Dorey
Jack Dorsey was born on 19th November 1976 in Missouri, the United States with the birth name of Jack Patrick Dorsey. He belongs to American nationality and his ethnicity is Caucasian. He grew up in St. Louis. He was raised Catholic. He was destined to become a computer wiz. He always had the interest in the computer and communication during the early years of his life. His birth sign is Scorpio. At present, his age is 42 but his age will be 43 on his next birthday in November as of 2019. He was born to Tim Dorsey, his father and Marcia Smith, his mother. His ethnicity is White. His other early life background will be updated soon.
Regarding his education, he had attended Bishop DuBourg High School. He later joined Missouri University of Science and Technology to study further but then discontinued there and transferred to New York University.
Height, Weight and Other Body Measurement
Jack Dorsey is a very handsome person with a cool attitude. With his charming smile, he attracts a lot of people towards him. His body build is Slim. He has a tall height of 5 feet 10 inch. His weight is 75 Kg. Overall, he has a balanced weight and a healthy body. His other body measurement will be updated soon.
How Jack Dorsey Began His Career?
- From his High School, Jack Dorsey actually started programming.
- In the year 2000, while he was only fifteen, he founded software that allows sending messages from the Web in order to find a taxi, which is still used by some of the taxicab company today.
- After that, he came the foundation of one of the most popular social networking sites of today’s time, Twitter.
- He started the company named “Obvious” with his other two partners Stone and Odeo, which later evolved as “twitter”.
- The primary idea behind the “twitter” was to update what they were doing through a simple SMS.
- He then became the Chief Executive Officer for the same.
- It was opened to the public only on 13th July 2006.
- Twitter instantly became a major hit because of its ease of use. Even the Hollywood A-List celebs and personalities went on to become their regular users.
- Millions of people today have a twitter account; it has become an integral part of their lives.
- In the year 2010, Twitter had more than 105 million users.
- Twitter’s popularity is something unmatchable. But Dorsey is not satisfied yet. He has laid his eyes on other projects too.
- He also launched a new venture, Square in the year 2010. It is actually a device that allows people to receive credit card payments through a tiny device plugged into their mobile or computers. He’s born genius and continues to do so.
- He was briefly suspended from his own Twitter account with 3.9 million followers on 22nd November 2016. After restoring the account, he tweeted that the suspension was due to an "internal mistake".
- He and Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani matched a $530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised by Twitter staffers which brought the total donation to $1.59 million in the year 2017.
- He announced that an improved version of the verification system is coming to Twitter in March 2018.
- He testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about meddling in the 2016 presidential election in September 2018. Following this testimony, Twitter shares fell 6%.
Marital Status, Affairs, Children's, Sexual Orientation
Jack Dorsey is not married yet and he is still to get married. He is enjoying happy feet with all of his success as of today. He has never been through a divorce and all. He is taking his time to find the perfect match for himself. He does not have time to think about starting a family and all of that because of his busy time with projects.
However, it was rumored that he’s dating a top-model Lily Cole. The pictures of them getting cozy on a luxury yacht was circulated all over in the media. However, nothing’s sure as if he plans on to tie the knot with the gorgeous head turner, Lily. At present, he does not have any children of his either.
At present, he is living a happy life without any disturbances. His sexual orientation is straight.
Net Worth, Salary and Source of Income
Jack Dorsey is one of the young billionaires. At just the age of forty-two, this man has the estimated net worth of $ 5 billion dollars. That is a huge amount of fortune. It takes a lifetime to make that wealth but Dorsey is just exception. He’s a successful entrepreneur. He’s not a salaried employee, he’s a businessman and that too, massive. His major source of earnings is from his own business. The more detailed information about his life and professional highs can be obtained from wiki.
