Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) Jack Dorsey (Square) - The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration
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Feb 9, 2011 AI Snips
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Dorsey's Parents
- Jack Dorsey's father co-founded a pizza restaurant called Two Nice Guys.
- He broke his own no-dating rule by falling for an employee, who became Dorsey's mother.
Early Influences
- Growing up in St. Louis, Dorsey developed a fascination with cities and their dynamics.
- This led to an obsession with maps and later, programming to visualize city data.
Dispatch Software
- Dorsey combined his programming skills with real-time data from police scanners to visualize city activity.
- This led him to a job at a dispatch firm after he pointed out a security flaw on their website.