Jack Dorsey decided that SMS text suited the status-message idea, and built a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks. The idea attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams, who had left Google after selling Pyra Labs and Blogger. Williams, Stone and Noah Glass co-founded Obvious Corporation, which then spun off Twitter, Inc., with Dorsey as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who backed the company. He reportedly lost his position for leaving work early to enjoy other pursuits, such as yoga and
Jelly (app) launching a native mobile app called Jelly. On April 1, 2013, Biz Stone wrote the company's first blog post, giving only very vague information about the product. A "TechCrunch" writer inferred that the product would be targeted at do-gooders on the go. Other news publications also published speculation about the app. In May 2013, while still in stealth mode, Jelly raised Series A funding from Spark Capital, SV Angel, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman, Al Gore, Bono, and others. The app release was announced, thereby bringing Jelly out of stealth mode, on January 7, 2014. The announcement was picked