Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Marcia (née Smith) and Tim Dorsey. He is of English, Irish and Italian descent. His father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker. He was raised Catholic, and his uncle is a Catholic priest in Cincinnati. He attended the Catholic Bishop DuBourg High School. In his younger
Nick Bilton days and its four founders—Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone—who are portrayed as "mediocrities, narcissists and mopers who seem to spend as much time on scheming, self-promotion and self-destruction as on anything else", according to Tim Wu's review in the "Washington Post". It was on the "New York Times" bestseller list and was voted Best Book of the Year on "The Wall Street Journal" Reader's Choice. The book was optioned by Lionsgate and is currently being turned into a TV series. Published in May 2017, Bilton's most recent book, "American Kingpin", tells the story of the Silk