Jack Dorsey is an American technological entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, as well as the founder and CEO of Square, a financial payments company.

Dorsey serves as an Adviser of Thrive Capital and is a Member of the Advisory Board of Techonomy Media Inc. He also served as an Independent Director of The Walt Disney Company from December 20, 2013 to March 8, 2018, and was an advisor for Open Places (AKA Trazzler, Inc.).

Dorsey was a student at University of Missouri - Rolla, later New York University, which he dropped out of and left his job as a programmer at a bike courier dispatch service in 1999 to move to San Francisco.

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