Jack Dorsey

Early Life
==Computer programmer and entrepeneur. Born November 19, 1976, Jack Dorsey is best known as the creator of Twitter. He grew 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. Until fourteen years old, Jack Dorsey, grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri. He had studied science and Technology at University of Missouri and then joined 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 to send messages from the Web in order to find quickly a taxi. The idea of communicating in a real time comes from AOL instant messenger. This software is still used today. ==

Career
In Oakland in 2000, Jack Dorsey's career all 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 giving 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 quite suited to do this project. The idea intriqued Odeo greatly and Twitter got the investment it needed to go forward.

Twitter, Inc
The team of Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass co-founded Twitter in March 2006. Initially called Obvious, Twitter became a huge hit very quickly. By 2007, Twiiter became a separate company from Odeo and went from being called Obvious to becoming 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 a 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. In May 2010, he finished and released his application for the iPad, iPhone, and Android. It allows for those systems to take credit cards through the headphone jack of these devices. Through this application, Square Inc. went from 10 employees in 2009 to over a hundred employees by June 2011.

Awards and Recognitions
In 2010 Jack Dorsey received a Crunchy Award for having the best startup of 2010 for his company Twitter. This award acknowledges the best startup technology companies of the year. Dorsey received in 2012 another Crunchy Award for Technological Innovation achievement, for his work with Twitter and Square. This award is given to those who change our view and how we use technology. He went on to win Media Person of the Year from Cannes Lion for his continuous work with Twitter and social media as a whole and how it is always in our presence throughout our daily life. The Media Person of the Year award goes to the person who was able to most affectively change how we use things in the social media realm. Jack Dorsey recently accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tribeca Film Festival Dirsrupt Awards in 2012 for his continuous work with Twitter and his constant strides to make life simpler and bring people around the world closer together through the means of social media. This life time achievement award goes to those who have made and continue to leave their fingerprints throughout the fabric of our society. Jack Dorsey has also been named one of Times Magazines 100 most influential people through his social media bombshell Twitter, and his constant efforts to better the connection of people around the world from all walks of life. Dorsey was also recognized for being a outstanding innovator under the age of 35 by MIT’s Technology Review.

Critical Analysis and Interpretation
Jack Dorsey is most known for his successful companies Twitter and Square. Both companies have been very influential and Twi

He created Twitter, one of the largest social networking sites in the world. With over 105 million users averaging about 55 million tweets a day, his start-up has changed the way people network within 140 characters or less.

Twitter famously played a role in the Arab Spring where it was used as a tool for organizing protests. In March 2011, 88% of those surveyed in Egypt and 94% of Tunisians stated they got their news from social media outlets such as Twitter. This resulted in censorship in countries such as Tunisia and Egypt, however this has not been effective. A quarter of Egyptians polled said that it did interfere with their ability to organize, but over half stated that it further motivated them. During the Iranian Presidential Elections, Twitter was so significant to the protest movement that the US State Department asked Twitter to move its reguarly scheduled maintainence so that protesters would not have to wait through downtime.

Dorsey is also responsible for Square, which allows people to accept credit payment through their mobile phone. Sqaure has been a leader amoung mobile payment start-ups. It allows small businesses such as food trucks to run credit cards easily and convieniently. Dorsey also innovated apps such as Register, which complements Square. Register turns an iPad into a mobile register, allowing small business to do everything involving their transaction.

Square also has made a deal with Starbucks allowing customers pay through Sqaure for their Starbucks purchases. Following this deal, the company has been valued as worth up to 3 billion dollars. ==Application to IT or ITC professionals ==

Jack Dorsey ‘s application to IT and ICT professionals was by creating the some of the most popular mobile applications, “Twitter,” and “Square”.

Twitter was created on March 2006 by Dorsey and launched that July. It is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters known and “tweets.” The mobile application gained worldwide popularity with over 500 million active users, generating 340 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Twitter has become one of the top 10 mist visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as “the SMS of the Internet.

Square was created in May 2010,by Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, to accept credit and debit card on a mobile device in the United States. It occurred to Dorsey when McKelvey could not make a $2000 sale due to he could not accept credit or debit cards. The small, square-shaped device attaches to iPhone, iPad or Android devices via the headphone jack, and as a mini card reader allows a person to swipe their card, choose an amount to give to the recipient and then sign their name for confirmation.

These two applications have made it easier for not only IT/ICT professionals, but everyone nationwide to share their thoughts on Twitter, or make some money through Square. It is important for IT and ICT professionals to know about Jack Dorsey because he is able to change the world through a mobile application.

Here is his resume basically:

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jack-dorsey

http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280

arab spring twitter stuff:

http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/designprocess/files/2012/08/TheNational_FacebookandTwitterKeytoArabSpringUprising.pdf http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html

Sqaure and Starbucks

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21564252/square-deal-latest-investment-values-mobile-payments-startup

Publications, patents, and other intellectual property
- Share Holder of Square, Inc. which is a mobile payment company which involes a process to allow users to swipe credit cards from their mobile phones in which he holds $845 worth of shares. This company is relatively newer than twitter but has already received many sponsors endorsements which definitely assures some level of success to come.

- Co-founder of Twitter along with Biz Stone and Evan Williams which has proven to be an essential tool for many celebrities and would be politicians and to say otherwise would be considered ignorant. Sent the first tweet "Just setting up my twttr" ever upon its creation.

- http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2012/07/25/the-new-billionaire-behind-twitter-and-square-jack-dorsey/

- http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280?page=2

-Edited by Maxwell Mitchell on 09/23/2012

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