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Who is Jack Dorsey

Jack Patrick Dorsey is the 43-year-old American CEO and co-founder of two vastly successful tech companies — Twitter and Square Inc. Since the launch of Twitter in 2006, it has gone on to become a widely known social media website, while Square is a small business payments company, which was founded in 2009 and was opened to the public in 2015.
 
In April 2020, with the onset of coronavirus pandemic across the world, the billionaire pledged to give away $1 billion - nearly 28% of his net worth - to Covid-19 relief, girls' education, and health, and universal basic income. According to Forbes, his current net worth stands at $6.9 billion. 
 
Just like many other Silicon Valley tech tycoons, Dorsey also dropped out while studying in New York State University to start his own company. In the 1980s, he forayed into the world of tech with a taxi dispatching software. Much later, his start-up started offering the dispatch software through the Internet. Soon after, the idea of Twitter crossed his mind.
 
Dorsey has found himself in several controversies over time. Recently, in May 2020, he locked horns with US President Donald Trump after Twitter started attaching fact-check warnings to President's tweets. In 2019, he faced a severe backlash in India over a picture of his with a placard reading "Smash Brahminical patriarchy". He was summoned by MPs, while several accused him of hate-mongering. 
 
In July 2020, the social media platform was hit by a widespread hack that targetted several high-profile accounts and offered bitcoin deals. Following the hack, Twitter shares tumbled 3.3 per cent, wiping out more than $1 billion from its market cap. 
 

Latest Updates on Jack Dorsey

Once backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky has overtaken Threads in daily active users. Meta's decision to de-emphasise political content has alienated users seeking political discussions

Updated On: 25 Nov 2024 | 1:21 PM IST

Mr Trump (then ex-President) also gets a fair share of attention in the book, particularly about how he used Twitter and other social media to make false claims

Updated On: 07 Nov 2024 | 11:24 PM IST

Jack Dorsey founded Twitter in 2006 with Evan Williams and Biz Stone. It was purchased by Elon Musk in 2023 for $44 billion, who later renamed it X

Updated On: 15 Jul 2024 | 1:24 PM IST

Bluesky is a decentralised, text-based, invite-only social network that rose in prominence following Elon Musk's acquisition of X/Twitter

Updated On: 06 May 2024 | 4:49 PM IST

The surprise is that Anderson, 39, who runs tiny Hindenburg Research with a team of roughly a dozen researchers, probably reaped relatively small profits from those fights

Updated On: 07 Aug 2023 | 10:45 PM IST

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also raised concerns about the permissions and data access required by Meta's new app, Threads

Updated On: 07 Jul 2023 | 12:36 PM IST

Rajeev Chandrasekhar lauds Karnataka HC dismissal of Twitter plea against govt's orders to block tweets and accounts related to farmers' protests in 2020 and 2021

Updated On: 30 Jun 2023 | 4:59 PM IST

Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO, has claimed that Indian govt "pressured" company with threats of a shutdown and raids on employees if it did not comply with requests to take down posts

Updated On: 30 Jun 2023 | 4:27 PM IST

A parliamentary standing committee is scheduled to meet today under the chairmanship of Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) Lok Sabha MP Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao

Updated On: 15 Jun 2023 | 11:48 AM IST

"We neither shut down Twitter or had any other punitive consequences imposed on Twitter. We are a democratic country and live by the rule of law," he added

Updated On: 14 Jun 2023 | 12:58 PM IST

"This is an outright lie by @jack - perhaps an attempt to brush out that very dubious period of Twitters history," said the Minister in his tweet

Updated On: 13 Jun 2023 | 10:45 PM IST

Jack Dorsey created a storm by claiming that Indian govt threatened to shut down the platform and conducted raids on its employees

Updated On: 13 Jun 2023 | 8:37 PM IST

The "false" allegations made by Jack Dorsey were an attempt to cover up past misdeeds and Twitter's internal communications had exposed that platform was "misused'', Anurag Thakur said

Updated On: 13 Jun 2023 | 6:16 PM IST

The BJP's IT department head Amit Malviya Tuesday came down heavily on former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey, saying the social media company was in violation of laws between 2020-2022

Updated On: 13 Jun 2023 | 4:45 PM IST

The Congress Tuesday demanded answers from the Modi government after ex-Twitter CEO Dorsey claimed platform was threatened it would be shut down unless it complied with orders

Updated On: 13 Jun 2023 | 1:41 PM IST

Congress on Tuesday mounted pressure on the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre over the former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's remarks and asked if the Narendra Modi government will answer

Updated On: 13 Jun 2023 | 10:24 AM IST

In a tweet, cabinet minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that Dorsey's claim was an 'outright lie'

Updated On: 13 Jun 2023 | 9:00 AM IST

Twitter rival Bluesky, backed by Jack Dorsey, has crossed more than 100,000 users with a total of 3.19 million posts, and is growing steadily

Updated On: 31 May 2023 | 1:05 PM IST

Icahn, 87, is the latest billionaire to be targeted by Hindenburg this year after the New York-based short-seller went after Gautam Adani and Jack Dorsey

Updated On: 03 May 2023 | 7:03 AM IST

Available only through invitation from current users for now, Bluesky aims to give users greater control

Updated On: 01 May 2023 | 3:05 PM IST