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CEO of Twitter
9/19/2018
In 2000, Dorsey started his company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the web.
Created Software programs for taxi"s at the age of 15
Bishop DuBourg High School
Private school in St. Louis, Missouri
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Dropped out of college and started a taxi business that failed, Then he started to freelance
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Dorsey had built a simple site where users could instantly post short messages of 140 characters or less, known in Twitter parlance as "tweets."
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In November 2013, Dorsey saw his personal fortune grow tremendously thanks to Twitter's initial public offering. The company's stock had a starting share price of $26, but the price quickly rose to $45 during its first day of trading. Within hours, the value of Dorsey's approximately 23.4 million shares made him a billionaire. He already began discussing the possibility of an IPO for his other company, Square, in 2014.
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At the age of 35 he was one of the top 35 Innovators in the world.
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Jack Dorsey was won Innovator of the year in 2012 by the Wall Street Journal
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6.1 Billion
The first day they allowed the public to buy stocks it started at 26$ per stock then at the end of the day the price jumped to 45$.
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There are approximately 500 Million tweets a day.
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Twitter's technology can handle up to 18 quintillion users
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