A History of Silicon Valley
This biography is an appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"
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(Copyright © 2009 Piero Scaruffi)
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey (Missouri, 1976)
dropped out of New York University to move to the Bay Area.
In 2006 Dorsey,
Biz Stone and Evan Williams of Blogger fame (acquired by Google)
created the social-networking service Twitter, where
people could post short live updates of what was going on in their life.
It soon became popular for current events the way CNN had become popular
during the first Gulf War.
In december 2008
Dorsey founded Square, a service to accept credit-card payments on iPhone and Android devices.
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