St. Louisan and creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, to speak at Webster University on Sept. 18
A TWEET-UP: So, I’ve just been texting with Jack Dorsey, which I did shortly after speaking with his father, Tim Dorsey (not the Tim Dorsey of KTRS), to find out where the creator of Twitter could be reached.Jack, who was born here and lived for much of his life in Compton Heights, is now between home in San Francisco and his new apartment in New York City. He texted me that we could talk tomorrow.
But I’m still going to write about him tonight. Dorsey, 32, graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School in 1995. The newsy part of this for anyone who already knew that the Twitter co-founder, who has 1,161,116 followers (make that 1,161,117 since I just jumped on), was a local product, is that Dorsey will be in town Sept. 18 to speak at 10 a.m. at Webster University.
Dorsey has been selected as Webster University’s Success to Significance 2009 Person of the Year. He will speak at the Loretto-Hilton Center in a free presentation. A reservation is needed.
A lifelong Cardinal’s fan, Dorsey will throw out the first pitch that Friday night when the Cards play the Cubs.
Jack has a Wikipedia entry, which tells us that “Business Week” has called him one of technology’s “best and brightest,” and that MIT’s “Technology Review named him to the TR35, an outstanding innovator under the age of 35.”
Dorsey’s parents, Tim and Marcia, live in Compton Heights. Tim owns his own business as a gas analyzer. Dorsey’s younger brothers, Dan and Andrew, work with their dad. Mom’s in real estate.
Tim said Jack has always been both right and left-brain smart. He studied software engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla) for three years and then he attended New York University and UC-Berkeley.
Tim said Jack was interested in dispatch routing as a teenager and that some of his software in that area is still used by taxi companies. He said Jack started a company in California in 2000 to dispatch couriers, taxies and emergency services from the Web. That eventually morphed into Twitter.
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I remember Jack from elementary school in Wentzville. I remember him as being very bright back then and was always talking about cryptography even back in the 3rd grade. I also attended UMR with him back in 95-96. Smart guy, wish him the best in the future.
Hi Deb,
the URL for this story is very Twitter unfriendly!
I can’t believe a successful person of this magnitude graduated from DuBourg. Usually DuBourg gets the second rate students who could not meet the admission requirements of SLUH or CBC.
And in typical, parochial St. Louis style, we have to rip on his high school…
Or maybe they didn’t want to spend 4 years in a sausage fest.
My question to the Twitter creator would be:
“If Obama continues not getting his way will he start knocking buildings down in broad daylight the way Bush did?”
I think it’s a lot more important for Americans to attend Twitter and Facebook events than to become involved in the running of their own country.
I’ve heard that he once babysat for Baby Jesus and that he is personal friends with Dubya and Obama (our founding fathers).