{"id":1563,"date":"2016-04-14T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2018-03-24T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:13:05","slug":"jack-dorsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/jack-dorsey","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 8px;margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/JackDorsey.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey\" \/>Jack is a serial entrepreneur who has started two companies<span style=\"position:relative;top:-3px;white-space:nowrap;\"> \u2014<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squareup.com\" target=\"_blank\">Square<\/a><span style=\"position:relative;top:-3px;white-space:nowrap;\"> \u2014<\/span> that, on the face of it, seem entirely different.  Twitter is a social networking service; Square is a mobile payments company.  But Jack believes that their shared purpose is to make each of their related tasks<span style=\"position:relative;top:-3px;white-space:nowrap;\"> \u2014<\/span> communicating and transacting<span style=\"position:relative;top:-3px;white-space:nowrap;\"> \u2014<\/span> easier. Twitter gets messages from point A to point B just as Square gets money from point A to point B.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has over 500 million users and gained global recognition when it facilitated the Iranian protests of the presidential election in 2009. Users type messages to followers using a maximum of 140 characters.<\/p>\n<p>Square is a financial services company that allows any merchant to accept credit card payments through a device that plugs into a smartphone&#8217;s headphone jack. One of the company&#8217;s services, called Square Wallet, allows customers to buy products without having to use their actual credit card.<\/p>\n<p>Jack speaks with Jessica Harris about how he launched both Twitter and Square, from scratch. <\/p>\n<p>This interview was conducted before Jack returned to Twitter and became CEO in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/JackDorsey-FromScratch-041416.mp3\" class=\"wpaudio\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack is a serial entrepreneur who has started two companies \u2014 Twitter and Square \u2014 that, on the face of it, seem entirely different. Twitter is a social networking service; Square is a mobile payments company. But Jack believes that their shared purpose is to make each of their related tasks \u2014 communicating and transacting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}