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The wild life of billionaire Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who eats one meal a day, dates models, and loves bitcoin
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Jack
Dorseycofounded Twitter
in 2006 and the company has made him a billionaire.
He is famous for his unusual life of luxury, including
a daily fasting routine, regular ice baths, and a penchant for
dating models.
Dorsey has also been caught up in the techlash, which
engulfed companies like Twitter and Facebook last
year.
From fighting armies of bots to quashing rumours about posting
his beard hair to rapper Azealia Banks, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
leads an unusual life of luxury.
Dorsey has had a turbulent career in Silicon Valley. After
cofounding Twitter in 2006, he was booted
as the company's CEO two years later,
but returned in 2015 having set up his second company, Square.
Since then, he has led the company through the techlash that has
engulfed social media companies, at one point testifying before
Congress alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Meanwhile, Dorsey has provoked his fair share of controversy and
criticism, extolling fasting and ice baths as part of his daily
routine. His existence is not entirely spartan, however. Like
some other billionaires, he owns a stunning house, dates models,
and drives fast cars.
Scroll on to read more about the fabulous life of Jack Dorsey.
Rebecca Borison and Madeline Stone contributed reporting to
an earlier version of this story.
Dorsey began programming while attending Bishop DuBourg High School in St. Louis.
At age 15, Dorsey wrote dispatch software that is still used by
some taxi companies.
When he wasn't checking out specialty electronics stores or running a fantasy football league for his friends, Dorsey frequently attended punk-rock concerts.
These days Dorsey doesn't favour the spiky hairdo.
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Like many of his fellow tech billionaires, Dorsey never graduated college.
He briefly attended the Missouri University of Science and
Technology and transferred to New York University before calling
it quits.
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Fun fact: Jack Dorsey is also a licensed masseur.
He got his license in about 2002, before exploding onto the tech
scene.
He got a job at a podcasting company called Odeo, where he met his future Twitter cofounders.
Odeo went out of business in 2006, so Dorsey returned to his
messaging idea, and Twitter was born.
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On March 21, 2006, Dorsey posted the first tweet.
Dorsey kept his Twitter handle simple, "@jack."
Dorsey and his cofounders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, bought the Twitter domain name for roughly $7,000.
Dorsey took out his nose ring to look the part of a CEO. He was
30 years old.
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A year later, Dorsey was already less hands-on at Twitter.
By 2008, Williams had taken over as CEO, and Dorsey transitioned
to chairman of Twitter's board. Dorsey immediately got started on
new projects. He invested in Foursquare and launched a payments
startup called Square that lets small-business owners accept
credit card payments through a smartphone attachment.
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Twitter went public in November 2013, and within hours Dorsey was a billionaire.
In 2014 Forbes pegged Dorsey's net worth at $2.2 billion. As of
March of this year he was worth roughly $5.1 billion.
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He might have been worth more had he not given back 10% of his stock to Square.
This helped Square employees, giving them more equity and stock
options. It was also helpful in acquiring online food-delivery
startup Caviar.
With his newfound wealth, he bought BMW 3 Series, but reportedly doesn't drive it often.
"Now he's able to say, like, 'The BMW is the only car I drive,
because it's the best automotive engineering on the planet,' or
whatever," Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told The New Yorker in
2013.
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He also reportedly paid $9.9 million for this seaside house on El Camino Del Mar in the exclusive Seacliff neighborhood of San Francisco.
The house has a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, which Dorsey
views as a marvel of design.
In an interview with journalist Kara Swisher conducted over
Twitter, Dorsey said he works every out of his kitchen every
Tuesday.
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He also told Kara Swisher that Elon Musk is his favourite Twitter user.
Dorsey said Musk's tweets are, "focused on solving existential
problems and sharing his thking openly."
He added that he enjoys all the "ups and downs" that come with
Musk's sometimes unpredictable use of the site. Musk himself
replied, tweeting his thanks and "Twitter rocks!" followed by a
string of random emojis.
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His eating habits have raised eyebrows.
Appearing on a podcast run by a health guru
who previously said that vaccines caused autism, Dorsey said
he eats one meal a day and fasts all weekend. He said the first
time he tried fasting it made him feel like he was hallucinating.
"It was a weird state to be in. But as I did it the next two
times, it just became so apparent to me how much of our days are
centered around meals and how - the experience I had was when I
was fasting for much longer, how time really slowed down," he
said.
The comments drew fierce criticism from many who said Dorsey was
normalising eating disorders.
In the early days of Twitter, Dorsey aspired to be a fashion designer.
Dorsey would regularly don leather jackets and slim suits by
Prada and Hermès, as well as Dior Homme reverse-collar dress
shirts, a sort of stylish take on the popped collar.
More recently he favours edgier outfits, including the classic
black turtleneck favoured by Silicon Valley luminaries like Steve
Jobs.
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He also re-introduced the nose-ring and grew a beard.
Dorsey seems to care less about looking the part of a traditional
CEO these days.
Azealia Banks claimed to have been sent clippings of Dorsey's beard hair to fashion into a protective amulet, although Dorsey denied this happened.
In 2016 Banks posted on her now-deleted Twitter account that
Dorsey sent her his hair, "in an envelope." Dorsey later told the
HuffPo that the beard-posting incident never happened.
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Dorsey frequently travels the world and shares his photos with his 4 million Twitter followers.
On his travels, Dorsey meets heads of state, including Japan's
Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
Tweets about his vacation in Myanmar also provoked an outcry.
Dorsey tweeted glowingly about a vacation he took to Myanmar for
his birthday in December 2018. "If you're willing to travel a
bit, go to Myanmar," he said.
This came at the height of the Rohingya crisis, and Dorsey was
attacked for his blithe promotion of the country - especially
since social media platforms were accused of having been
complicit in fuelling hatred towards the Rohingya.
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However, Dorsey says he doesn't care about "looking bad."
In a bizarre Huffington Post interview, Dorsey was asked
whether Donald Trump - an avid tweeter - could be removed from
the platform if he called on his followers to murder a
journalist. Dorsey gave a vague answer which drew sharp
criticism.
Following the interview's publication, Dorsey said he doesn't
care about "looking bad." "I care about being open about how
we're thinking and about what we see," he said.
In September 2018, Jack Dorsey was grilled by lawmakers alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Dorsey and Sandberg were asked about election interference on
Twitter and Facebook as well as alleged anti-conservative bias in
social media companies.
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During the hearing, Dorsey shared a snapshot of his spiking heart rate on Twitter.
Dorsey was in the hot seat for several hours. His heart rate
peaked at 109 beats per minute.
When he's not in Washington, Dorsey regularly hops in and out of ice baths and saunas.
Dorsey said in the "Tales of the Crypt" podcast that he started
using ice baths and saunas in the evenings around 2016.
He will alternately sit in his barrel sauna for 15 minutes and
then switch to an ice bath for three. He repeats this routine
three times, before finishing it off with a one-minute ice bath.
He also likes to take an icy dip in the mornings to wake him up.
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Dorsey's dating life has sparked intrigue. In 2018, he was reported to be dating Sports Illustrated model Raven Lyn Corneil.
Page Six reported in September last year that the pair were
spotted together at the Harper's Bazaar Icons party during New
York Fashion Week. Page Six also reported that Dorsey's exes
included actress Lily Cole and ballet dancer Sofiane Sylve.
He's a big believer in cryptocurrency, frequently tweeting about its virtues.
In particular, Dorsey is a fan of Bitcoin, which he described in
early 2019 as "resilient" and "principled." He told the "Tales of
the Crypt" podcast in March that he was maxing out the $10,000
weekly spending limit on Square's Cash App buying up Bitcoin.
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