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March 3, 2011 10:54 pm GMT
Jack Dorsey gets the Vanity Fair treatment in a long profile written by David Kirkpatrick (author of The Facebook Effect). It goes over familiar ground for anyone who's been following Dorsey"his obsession with maps and cities, the founding of Twitter, his ouster, and more recently new company Square (which is doing just fine, thank you). But Kirkpatrick pulls it all together into a cohesive narrative peppered with some new details.You learn, for instance, that "Dorsey's personal wealth may well exceed $300 million," Square now has 78 employees and that one day, he says, he wants to become the Mayor of New York City. But it took him a while to find himself. In addition to being a programmer and entrepreneur, Dorsey also tried his hand at being a botanical illustrator, a certified massage therapist, and even took classes in fashion design to try to learn to design jeans (he only got as far as skirts, though, before Twitter took off).The article also delves into Dorsey's strained relationship with Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams. "Dorsey and Williams, to this day, rarely speak to each other beyond occasional exchanges at board meetings," Kirkpatrick writes. In a passage that delves into those days when Twitter was melting down every day and Dorsey was replaced by Ev as CEO, Dorsey describes how being replaced from his own company made him feel: "It was like being punched in the stomach." Here is the full passage:
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Jack Dorsey On Being Ejected From Twitter: "It Was Like Being Punched In The Stomach"
Jack Dorsey gets the Vanity Fair treatment in a long profile written by David Kirkpatrick (author of The Facebook Effect). It goes over familiar ground for anyone who's been following Dorsey"his obsession with maps and cities, the founding of Twitter, his ouster, and more recently new company Square (which is doing just fine, thank you). But Kirkpatrick pulls it all together into a cohesive narrative peppered with some new details.You learn, for instance, that "Dorsey's personal wealth may well exceed $300 million," Square now has 78 employees and that one day, he says, he wants to become the Mayor of New York City. But it took him a while to find himself. In addition to being a programmer and entrepreneur, Dorsey also tried his hand at being a botanical illustrator, a certified massage therapist, and even took classes in fashion design to try to learn to design jeans (he only got as far as skirts, though, before Twitter took off).The article also delves into Dorsey's strained relationship with Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams. "Dorsey and Williams, to this day, rarely speak to each other beyond occasional exchanges at board meetings," Kirkpatrick writes. In a passage that delves into those days when Twitter was melting down every day and Dorsey was replaced by Ev as CEO, Dorsey describes how being replaced from his own company made him feel: "It was like being punched in the stomach." Here is the full passage:Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nNpqJ6zhhhE/
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