Jack Dorsey is an American Programmer and businessman widely known as the co-founder of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payment company. In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. For 2012, The Wall Street Journal gave him the Innovator of the Year Award for technology.
Early Life, Bio, And Education
Dorsey was born on November 19, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was raised in St. Louis. He is the son of Marcia (Smith) and Tim Dorsey. He is of Italian descent. His father worked for a company that developed ma s s spectrometers, and his mother was a homemaker.
He was raised Catholic, and his uncle is a Catholic priest in Cincinnati. He went to Catholic High School, at Bishop DuBourg High School. Growing up in St. Louis. Dorsey became interested in computers and communications at an early age and began programming while still a student at Bishop DuBourg High School.
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.
When he was 15, Dorsey wrote dispatch software that is still used by some taxicab companies today. The very first thing they people remember about Jack is what a quiet boy he was! There explanation for this fact. He was stuttering and, thus, preferred to keep silence.
Young Dorsey solved this problem by himself after giving up on the medicine. By age 13, Dorsey had become interested in dispatch routing. Many taxicab companies still use some of the open-source software he created in the area of dispatch logistics.
Dorsey attended the Missouri University of Science and Technology before subsequently transferring to New York University, but he dropped out. He first came up with the idea that became Twitter at New York University. While working on dispatching as a programmer, he later moved to California.
Wife, Girlfriend, Marriage
The technical genius, Jack Dorsey has a dynamic personality. Hence, there would be numbers of girls who have crushed him. Surprisingly, his relationship status to date is single. He is yet to be married. But as of now, he is dating his girlfriend Raven Lyn Corneil, Sports Illustrated model.
He has not got married to anyone yet. But his name was linked with several girls. Once there was a hoax that he was dating top-model named Lily Cole. The rumor turned into reality when the pictures of them circulated all over the media and internet sites.
His name was also linked up with Kate Greer. Despite all his real or false rumors, he is still single and doesn't have any wife. The handsome billionaire even seems no plan of getting married.
He has never been through the divorce and all. He is taking his time to find the perfect match for himself. He always beards with projects and new ideas. He does not have time to think about starting a family and all of that.
Net Worth, Hosue, Income Sources
Dorsey has proved his supremacy in entrepreneurship through his wisely chosen business ventures. He uses his three traits of simplicity, craftsmanship, and constraint to run his businesses.
His love of dispatch routing made him one of the wealthiest people in the world. As of March 2013, his net worth is $1.1 billion. Even though Twitter has already brought a ma s sive change in the way, people communicate, for Dorsey, this is not the end.
As of 2014, Jack Dorsey has a net worth of $2.4 Billion and admitted by Forbes as one of the wealthiest billionaires on the planet, and we too can guess his salary from this. He is single. Jack considers his most significant achievement to date is building a company of people who love their work.
Dorsey manages to enjoy his wealth. As of September 2012, Square Inc. is valued $3.2 billion. He has always remained humble in spite of all these huge successes, and his down to his personality has helped him make many friends and supporters.
And in 2019, the American computer programmer has an estimated net worth of around $5.8 billion. He owns a house in San Francisco, California. It's worth as of now is around $21.9 million. 3,600 sq. feet mansion has five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
by sanjeet, 20 Jan, 2016
