Jack Patrick Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter. He is also the CEO of Square, a financial payments company. Dorsey dropped out of New York University in 1999, one semester short of graduating. He hopes Twitter will one day become a service that allows people to buy and sell medical products online.
About Jack Dorsey in brief
Jack Patrick Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter. He is also the CEO of Square, a financial payments company. Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He dropped out of New York University in 1999, one semester short of graduating. In 2000, Dorsey started his company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web. In 2011, he returned to Twitter as executive chairman after Dick Costolo replaced Williams as CEO. On June 10, 2015, Costolo announced his resignation as CEO, effective July 1, 2015. In January 2016, Dorseys announced that Twitter would not count photos in the 140-character limit to free up more space in the free space for text. In February 2017, he matched a USD 530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union by Twitter staffers. On November 22, 2016, he was briefly suspended from his own Twitter account with 3 million followers. After restoring the account, he tweeted that the suspension was due to an internal mistake by an internal Twitter staff member. He was named permanent CEO on October 5, 2015 and took over as chairman of Square on December 1, 2013. He has also served as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York City Marathon since May 2013, when it became a non-profit.
He also serves on the board of directors of the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Science and Industry in New York, where he has served as a trustee for the National Museum of American History since 2007. He currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the Council for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. (CASI). Dorsey has also been a member of the National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Staff, among other positions. He served on the U.S. State Department delegations to Iraq, Russia, and Iran. He says his three guiding principles, which he says the company shares, are simplicity, constraint and craftsmanship. He wants Twitter to be a “frictionless service market” for medical devices and a medical device network. He hopes Twitter will one day become a service that allows people to buy and sell medical products online. He believes that the company should be able to provide a “free, frictionless service” for consumers.
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