Jack Dorsey
Chief Executive Officer at BLOCK, INC.
Net worth: 3 882 M $ as of 2024-02-28
Profile
Jack Dorsey is Twitter’s co founder. In 2010, Twitter had more than 105 million users who “tweet” about 55 million times a day.
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.
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.
He meets Odeo’s founders, Noah Glass and Evan Williams. Noah Glass markets AudioBlogger, an application allowing to publish audio files on a blog via telephone. Evan Williams is known as co-founder of Pyra Labs, which in origin was a platform of blogs, taken over by Google in 2003.
Together they create a Twitter’s prototype. The idea is allowing users to say what they are doing via SMS. Open to public on July 13 2006, the first version is called stat.us and then twitter.
Until October 16 2008, Jack Dorsey is a CEO. Then he became chairman of the board, and Evan Williams succeeded him.
With its ease of use, Twitter becomes rapidly very popular. In 2007, Twitter won South by Southwest Web awards for blogs.
In May 2009, Dorsey announced his new project, Square, originally the name was Squirrel. This is a start-up which allows people to receive payments by credit card through a small device installed on their mobile phone.
Known holdings in public companies
Company | Date | Number of shares | Valuation | Valuation date |
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BLOCK, INC.
77.04% | 2023-12-30 | 47,844,566 ( 77.04% ) | 3 802 M $ | 2024-02-28 |
BLOCK, INC. CLASS A
0.18% | 2023-12-30 | 1,000,000 ( 0.18% ) | 79 M $ | 2024-02-28 |
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Jack Dorsey active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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BLOCK, INC. | Chief Executive Officer | 2009-05-31 |
Daemon Enterprises
Daemon Enterprises Commercial Printing/FormsCommercial Services Thing Daemon, Inc. offers online retail services. Its scrapbooking and shopping site allows a user to create a catalog of their favorite things around the web and around the world. The company’s users can curate a collection of things they love, receive updates on favorite brands and stores and share their discoveries all in one place. Thing Daemon was founded by Joseph Einhorn and Jack Einhorn in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of Jack Dorsey
Companies | Position | End |
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TWITTER, INC. | Chief Executive Officer | 2021-11-28 |
WALT DISNEY COMPANY (THE) | Director/Board Member | 2018-03-07 |
Exploratorium
Exploratorium Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Exploratorium engages as a museum of science, art and human perception activities . It creates tools and experiences that help people to become an active explorer. The firm includes film creenings workshops for life long learners as well as culture of learning through innovative environments, programs and tools that help people nurture their curiosity about the world around them. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
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Listed companies | 2 |
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WALT DISNEY COMPANY (THE) | Consumer Services |
BLOCK, INC. | Technology Services |
Private companies | 3 |
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Daemon Enterprises
Daemon Enterprises Commercial Printing/FormsCommercial Services Thing Daemon, Inc. offers online retail services. Its scrapbooking and shopping site allows a user to create a catalog of their favorite things around the web and around the world. The company’s users can curate a collection of things they love, receive updates on favorite brands and stores and share their discoveries all in one place. Thing Daemon was founded by Joseph Einhorn and Jack Einhorn in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
X Corp. (United States)
X Corp. (United States) Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services X Corp. is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. It provides a network that connects users to people, information, ideas, opinions and news. The company's services include live commentary, live connections and live conversations. Its application provides social networking services and micro-blogging services through mobile devices and the Internet. The company can also be used as a marketing tool for businesses. Its products and services include Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts and Promoted Trends. Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Christopher Isaac Stone, Noah E. Glass, Jeremy LaTrasse and Evan Williams on March 21, 2006, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
Exploratorium
Exploratorium Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Exploratorium engages as a museum of science, art and human perception activities . It creates tools and experiences that help people to become an active explorer. The firm includes film creenings workshops for life long learners as well as culture of learning through innovative environments, programs and tools that help people nurture their curiosity about the world around them. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Consumer Services |