Talk:Jack Dorsey/@comment-5546169-20120924202529

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Early Life:

Born November 19, 1976, Jack Dorsey is best known as the creator of Twitter. Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri; Dorsey became interested in computers and communications at an early age and began programming while still a student at Bishop DuBourg High School.  He studied science and technology at the University of Missouri and then enrolled at the University of New York.  He was fascinated by the technological challenge of coordinating taxi drivers, delivery vans and other fleets of vehicles that needed to remain in constant, real-time communication with one another. In 2000, he founded a service which allows one to send messages from the Web in order to quickly find a taxi. The idea of communicating in a real time originated from AOL instant messenger  and is still being used today.

Career:

In Oakland in 2000, Jack Dorsey's career began with a start-up company that dispatched taxis, emergency services, and couriers through the use of the Web. In July of that year, he began brainstorming the basic idea of Twitter which was inspired by in part by LiveJournal and AOL Instant Messenger. Basically he had the idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service.

After he spoke to Odeo, Jack and Biz Stone created a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks. They intially decided the SMS text system was well suited for this project. The idea intriqued Odeo greatly and Twitter got the investment it needed to go forward.

Twitter, Inc
The team, consisting of Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, co-founded Twitter in March 2006. Initially called Obvious, Twitter became a huge hit very quickly and by 2007, Twiiter became a separate company from Odeo and went from being called Obvious to Twitter. As more and more users began to use Twitter, Jack became more focused on making Twitter have a faster uptime. Twitter is a shining example of his three principles which are constraint, simplicity, and craftsmanship.

Square, Inc
When Jack Dorsey's friend had a problem completing a sale because he couldn't accept credit cards, Jack became more motiviated to finish his Square Application which allows for systems to read credit cards through their headphone jack. In May 2010, he finished and released his application for the iPad, iPhone, and Android. Through this application, Square Inc. went from 10 employees in 2009 to over a hundred employees by June 2011.