The extraordinary journey of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey
Nowadays, Twitter has become the main communication platform of the global blockchain. Big names such as V God and the most active projects and developers in the encryption field like to communicate with the outside world through Twitter, and some heavyweight projects also use it to make their voices heard , Even a popular financing platform like CoinList did not choose Telegram but invested in Twitter.
On March 31, 2006, the first Twitter was issued by the founder Dorsey "just setting up my twttr" to fix my Twitter. So far, Twitter has gone through 15 years, and the success of Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey), one of the founders, is quite legendary.
Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey), programmer who changed the world, founder of Twitter. Jack Dorsey has been obsessed with the pursuit of dreams since he was a child, until he created a new social media, Twitter was born out of nowhere, "shocking the world". In a person's life, some people are destined to shine like stars in the world and live a bright life.
no one can succeed casually
There is a Chinese proverb: Three years old is old, and seven years old is old. It means that through the behavior of a child, we can feel what kind of person the child will grow up in the future. A person's behavior and habits in childhood affect his life. From the child, we can see his future achievements and achievements. In a small town near St. Louis in the United States, there was a boy named Jack Dorsey. He started to like programming when he was about seven or eight years old, that is, in the mid-1980s. As an introverted little boy, he would sometimes sit for hours at his father's desk on an old IBM PC. He started from self-taught programming and gradually grew into the founder of Twitter. It can be said that the binary programming language of the computer is the password of his life's success.
The losers are all different, but the winners are all the same. Like many successful people who have excellent qualities, Jack Dorsey is a persistent and persevering person. As a child, I was interested in how cities work, obsessed with studying maps and the sound of trains. He went around to see cars and trains passing through, from which he experienced how the system and rules can work perfectly, and then explored the realization of life and converted it into a virtual world on the Internet. At the age of 33, Dorsey reflected on the past: "The city makes me full of passion and yearning. Just walking around in it, I can experience the vitality and life of the city, so I want to portray them." Spent many years writing software for dispatching taxis, ambulances and fire trucks. After that, he finally thought of a communication tool that allows people to update their daily activities anytime, anywhere. On March 21, 2006, Twitter was born. Jack once wrote in February 2007 that "people can change the world with 140 characters", and his dream of sticking to it for more than 20 years has finally been realized.
Anyone who has a dream is great, and the realization of the dream comes from the love of life. A successful person should also be a person who likes life and gets wisdom and inspiration from life. 14-year-old Jack's first job was as a barista, working in her mother's cafe. At the age of 15, because of this job, I met a glass craftsman in a cafe and started programming for him. We often say that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. Later, in 2008, when the engineer who became acquainted with coffee was annoyed that he could not collect money with a credit card, it was Jack who came out and seized the opportunity. By chance, he discovered the huge market demand for mobile payment. After that, the first version of Square hardware and software was developed. Such a story is beautiful and inspirational. Of course, we know that the main reason Jack founded Square is that he has already felt the huge market demand and bright prospects of mobile payment in advance. In an interview with the media, he said: He never thought about creating a company or becoming an engineer, programmer, etc. Instead, he said he simply had an idea and decided to make it a reality.
The fragrance of soaring sky penetrates Chang'an, and the whole city is full of golden armour.
Dapeng rises with the same wind in one day, soaring up to 90,000 li. When it comes to Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey), you can't get around Twitter. As the three founders, Jack has made Twitter, and Twitter has made Jack. When Twitter first came out, it was still very weak, and toddlers inevitably stumbled. At first, few people understood the value of Twitter, and there was a charge for sending text messages, so people were worried that their text message charges would increase, and Twitter’s later development also experienced several twists and turns. After Twttr changed its name to Twitter, Jack was still just an engineer. When sending messages on Twitter, text messages with more than 160 characters will be compiled into multiple text messages and sent sequentially, which will increase the cost of text messages. Jack and other founders and company colleagues reviewed the situation and decided to limit the number of characters sent each time to 140 to ensure that there is room for the punctuation in front of the user name or text message. This small change has brought Twitter to a different direction. The usual way. Under the leadership of the three founders, Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone, Twitter has soared from an unknown person to an instant messaging giant on the Internet.
On March 21, 2006, Twitter was born;
Jack Dorsey became CEO of Twitter in 2007;
In 2008, Twitter rejected Facebook's $500 million acquisition price;
On the evening of November 7, 2013, Twitter was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with an opening price of US$45.1, a 73.46% increase from the issue price of US$26;
In November 2017, Twitter announced that it would relax the tweet limit to 280 characters, officially saying goodbye to the era of 140 characters;
In July 2019, the market value reached 32 billion, with 7,000 employees and an annual turnover of 3.46 billion US dollars;
In the third quarter of 2020, Twitter had 187 million monetizable daily active users.
Is the golden lin a thing in the pool, it changes into a dragon when it meets the wind and cloud. Times create heroes, and Jack's growth is also quite legendary. He was born with the birth of Twitter and became a star in the world. Alex Payne, an early engineer at Twitter, once mentioned that many of the team members at the beginning of the company's development came from smaller startups or non-profit organizations, rather than large Internet companies like Google. Twitter's start-up is not obvious, and it is inconspicuous among the numerous Internet start-ups, and this also gives it a broad space to immerse itself in development. However, the road ahead has not been smooth sailing. When it broke into people's field of vision, Twitter attracted the attention of young users at an unprecedented speed, and as one of the founders, Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey) also frequently appeared on the covers of famous American business and technology magazines, becoming The image spokesperson who leads the San Francisco technology trend. However, there are growing doubts about the company within Silicon Valley. They pointed out that Twitter not only lacked sufficient technical strength to support a large scale, but also did not have any profit channels. Just as Twitter's early days were rocky, Jack faced setbacks at the time. First, in 2008, Jack was fired by Twitter, which he founded. It was not until 7 years later that he returned to Twitter and once again served as Twitter CEO. After Jack was fired by Twitter, he had contact with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and almost went to Facebook to take a job, but finally gave up because the position was not negotiated. Whether the dragon is trapped in the shallows or the hidden dragon is in the abyss, in short, there are dragons, and there are times when flying dragons are in the sky. Later, on October 6, 2015, Jack Dorsey returned to Twitter as CEO. With the help of the rise of the Twitter empire, Jack Dorsey also became the most influential technology company in the world home one.
long road
The vicissitudes of life show the true qualities of a hero. In this society where things are changing and times are changing, starting a business is like sailing against the current - if you don't advance, you will retreat. When the society eliminates you, you don’t even say hello. As an entrepreneur, you must be so vigilant. Twitter has come a long way since returning to take the helm of the company again. Interestingly, Jack Dorsey is in charge of the well-known financial services company Square (with a market value of over 100 billion U.S. dollars). As of the end of 2020, Square’s stock price has increased by more than 25 times since its IPO, while Twitter’s seven-year return rate is only a poor 20%. . However, the two boats have attracted the dissatisfaction of Twitter's board of directors, leading to criticism, hoping to remove Jack's Twitter CEO status. In this regard, in the conference call after the release of Twitter’s financial report in February 2019, he explained: “I think that my job is very simple, whether it is a CEO in several companies. I need to establish a complete Only in this way can I ensure the continuous development of the company in the future.” Facing the old rivals Facebook, Snapchat, and the strong rise of new media like Tik Tok and Clubhouse, It can be described as a two-sided attack. As the leader of Twitter, he must take the initiative. For this reason, Jack led a series of reforms and innovations: the launch of Fleets, Spaces and paid subscription functions, which once again gave Twitter a shot in the arm and inspired people. It boosted morale. With the development of the Internet and digital society, social platforms have always been competing for the throne, and I will take the stage after you sing. Is it because the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves and beat the front waves to death on the beach, or is it the spring of dead trees? As an idol-level technology leader, Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey) can lead Twitter to greater glory, let us wait and see!
