Jack Dorsey

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Software engineer Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder of Twitter, and was the CEO until October 2008. Dorsey had the original idea for Twitter while still at Odeo, a podcasting startup which was a project of Obvious Corp. He is now the chairman of Twitter.

In May 2009, Dorsey announced his latest project code name Squirrel. Squirrel is a new mobile payment startup. It’s both an app and a piece of hardware that allows the iPhone to accept payments.

Dorsey was a student at New York University, which he dropped out of and left his job as a programmer at a taxi dispatch service in 1999 to move to San Francisco.

Milestones

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• Invested in Foursquare. (9/4/09)
  Posted 9/4/09 at 2:05pm
• Added position as Co-Founder, Chairman at Twitter.
  Posted 10/16/08 at 1:13pm
• Added position as Founder at Square.
  Posted 5/8/09 at 4:22pm
• Added position as CEO, Co-Founder at Twitter.
  Posted 6/1/07 at 4:46am
• Added position as Advisor at Ustream.
  Posted 8/5/09 at 3:43pm

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Sources

1. techcrunch.com [edit]