Jack Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri on November 19, 1976. By the age of 14 he had developed an interest in “Dispatch Routing” of all things. I guess we all have our passions, Jack’s just happened to be Dispatch Routing and Computer Programming. He attended “Missouri University of Science and Technology” however I failed to find where he had graduated. Considering that most of the Computer Brainiacs that went to college never bothered to finish, this is not really surprising.

In 2000, Dorsey started a company to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web. He had several other business ventures at about the same time. However, it was his interest in dispatch and possibly AOL instant messaging that got he and Biz Stone, his co-founder in business, thinking about SMS texting. They approached a company by the name of Odeo, which has had a colorful history to say the least, and an idea was born. Soon after, a chap by the name of Evan Williams join in the fun and a company named Obvious was founded. On October 16, 2008 Williams took over the position of CEO, and Dorsey became chairman of the board.

On that October day in 2008 it is rumored that Evan Williams forced Dorsey from his offices. We will never really know what did happen, but one thing is sure, Dorsey has moved on to other projects. Presumably, he is presently holed up in San Francisco working on a service to rival Paypal by providing person-to-person electronic payments via iPhone ( and you can bet; BlackBerry, iPad and a dozen other platforms). However that was four months ago and no word about progress has been forthcoming.

I thought I would hit Jack over at Twitter to see what he was doing on the day, maybe I could grab a tidbit or two about his future plans. So, …… Here it is in all its glory, his latest Tweet: “Huge. RT @digiphile “With tutelage from @jack, eBay CEO John Donahoe signs up on Twitter as @tallboy6″-@edyson: http://flic.kr/p/7EB7PF”. Geek speak for sure, but I think he is telling the world that eBay’s CEO just signed up for an account for Twitter! You see, Jack gave the world Twitter!!! God Bless ya, Jack! Some habits die hard!