Jack Dorsey
CEO at Square Inc.
Square expands its hardware push with new cash register
At a press event in a sunlit San Francisco cafe, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey introduced the "Square Stand," a white, molded-plastic iPad holder that lets businesses accept credit cards with a mounted iPad and an integrated card reader. Coupled with an iPad and Square's free iPad ... Read more »
New Cash Registers Are Sexy, But What's Beneath the Counter Matters More
Anointed the next Steve Jobs by some admirers, Twitter inventor and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is one of the few people who can get the Silicon Valley press corps to roll out of bed early to hear what he has to say. Unlike Jobs, Dorsey spoke from a table at Blue Bottle Coffee near ... Read more »
Biz Stone’s New Startup Jelly Raises Series A From Spark Capital, SV Angel, Square CEO Jack Dorsey,...
According to details posted to the official company blog this morning, the team has raised a Series A from a notable lineup of investors in a round led by Spark Capital, with additional investment from SV Angel, and a group of angels that includes Square CEO Jack Dorsey;Reid ... Read more »
If You Can’t Afford $605K For Coffee With Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey’s Charity Auction Is At $5K With Fou...
If the “Cook Experience” is a bit too rich for your blood, then you might be interested in hanging out with Twitter co-founder and Square CEO, Jack Dorsey. His recent auction, benefitting BUILD.org, gets you a full-on lunch with the man at Square’s office in San Francisco. Whereas Cook’s ... Read more »
Mobile-payment service Square blocks gun sales
The mobile-payment service, run by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, amended its terms of service for retailers last week to ban sales of "firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or... weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury. " A Square spokesman declined ... Read more »
Square Cash Will Let You Send Money To Your Friends By Email
While it’s hard to decrypt CEO Jack Dorsey’s tweets and Vines, Square Cash might have been the reason for this recent little celebration: Celebrating an excellent little something. vine.co/v/b9JqebYq1wj— Jack Dorsey (@jack) May 20, 2013 This is developing... Read more »
Focusing On International Expansion, Square Hires Former US Trade Negotiator Demetrios Marantis To H...
“Square is already having a meaningful impact on local economies in the US and Canada,” said co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. “Demetrios’ invaluable experience will help Square provide powerful business tools to local entrepreneurs around the world.” Marantis, who is a lawyer, first ... Read more »
CEO Dick Costolo wants to model Twitter's growth on Amazon's
And sometimes, he said, "There are people who are great at certain phases of the company, and at other times, they're not Twitter, famously, has seen a revolving door of talent at the top, as its three founders — Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone — have shuttled in and out at ... Read more »
Jack Dorsey On Entrepreneurship: It's About Building Ideas, Not Companies
In a interview with Bloomberg television, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey admits that he never wanted to start a company or be an engineer or a programmer. Rather, he had “an idea and decided to pursue it.” The result is, as we all know, the development of two popular services that ... Read more »
Unreal Candy
That includes musician John Legend, Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, actor Matt Damon, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, and football player Tom Brady. "People respect it so they want to get behind it," Nicky says. In a little less than a year since launching, Unreal has made its way into ... Read more »
What Marketers Can Learn From Artists
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey admires the art and athleticism of ballet dancers. Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard and Aetna Aetna do more than that: They actually tap a dance troupe to inspire their ranks. Even Warren Buffett – frequently presented as a passionate advocate of scientific ... Read more »
Coffee meeting with Apple boss Tim Cook reaches £400,000 in online auction as tech entrepreneurs bid...
Tech fans keen to meet a high-powered businessman for a slightly more affordable price might like to bid on lunch with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, currently available for $15,600... Read more »
BBC News Can you be part-time and powerful?
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and mobile payments venture Square once said that he put in eight to 10 hours a day at each of those businesses - effectively two working days in one. Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer reportedly worked up to 130 hours a week while at Google. But the necessity of ... Read more »
Trita Parsi: Iranian-American Tech Brothers Lead Charge to Reform U.S. Educational System
The video features every tech giant from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey - and even code beginner will.i.am! Code.org takes on one of America's most pressing future crises: A massive shortage of computer engineers spurred ... Read more »
Swipely's Big Data Machine Brings Customer Insights To Merchants On Main Street
Jack Dorsey ‘s Square is quickly making inroads into the same group of customers Swipely is targeting (Blue Bottle Coffee Co., which has 11 locations, recently switched its registers to Square), and it would be a small step for Square to offer analytics on customers. Swipely’s edge over ... Read more »
Spark Capital Leads Series A for Jelly Industries
Other investors in the company include Jack Dorsey, Square’s co-founder and CEO; Bono; Reid Hoffman of Greylock Discovery Fund and Al Gore. Stone is co-founder and CEO of Jelly, which is based in San Francisco. A group of jellies is called a bloom, and this group just closed its Series ... Read more »
peHUB Second Opinion 5.8
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey has been filming himself (and his toothpick) all over San Francisco. Groupon beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in the first quarter. Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling could be out of jail by 2017, ten years sooner than originally expected. U.S. ... Read more »
BUILD Lunch Auction With Square's Jack Dorsey Ends With $31,600 Bid
How much would you pay for lunch with Jack Dorsey, one of the most successful tech entrepreneurs in recent history? One anonymous person is forking out $31,600 for a date with the Twitter and Square founder, after scooping a charity auction. It ended on Friday after 24 bids. The money ... Read more »
