Jack Dorsey sets his sights on bitcoin mining business after exiting Twitter

Jack Dorsey sets his sights on bitcoin mining business after exiting Twitter
Jack Dorsey sets his sights on bitcoin mining business after exiting Twitter

Decades before Jack Dorsey became a titan of the technology industry with not one but two CEO titles to his name and an eye-popping $12billion net worth, he was a young man from St Louis who dabbled in modeling and aspired to become a fashion designer, or a massage therapist. 

Now that Dorsey, 45, resigned as Twitter's chief executive officer, the bearded billionaire with a penchant for nose rings, tie-dye shirts, long walks and fasting will have plenty of time to pursue his new passion: bitcoin-mining. 

Dorsey still remains the CEO of Square Inc, the hugely successful financial payments company that he co-founded in 2010.   

In recent years, Dorsey has been using his considerable public platform to proselytize about the merits of cryptocurrency, particularly bitcoin.

Next chapter: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned on Monday after 16 years with the company he co-founded. He is currently working on a new bitcoin-mining venture

Next chapter: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned on Monday after 16 years with the company he co-founded. He is currently working on a new bitcoin-mining venture 

Dorsey got his start as a model before turning his attention to computer programming

He dropped out of NYU a month shy of graduating

Dorsey got his start as a model before turning his attention to computer programming. He dropped out of NYU a month shy of graduating 

In July, he announced that Square was launching a new bitcoin-based venture 'with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permissionless and decentralized financial services,' he tweeted at the time to his 5.9million followers. 

Speaking at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, Dorsey said he hopes bitcoin can help bring about 'world peace.' 

Dorsey was born and raised in St Louis, the son of of a businessman and a homemaker. 

In his youth, Dorsey dabbled in vintage clothing modeling and created dispatch routing software used by taxi companies before enrolling in University of Missouri-Rolla. After more than two years, he transferred to New York University, but dropped out just one semester shy of graduating in 1997.

Dorsey conceived of the idea that would later turn into Twitter while still at NYU.

He moved to

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