Jack Dorsey Sells His First Ever Tweet

Popular Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey has sold a digital certificate connected to his first-ever tweet for over £2m.

The tweet, posted by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, read, “Just setting up my twttr,” and the digital certificate was purchased in an auction by Sina Estavi, a Malaysia-based entrepreneur.

See the tweet,

Mr Estavi added that he is glad the money has being donated to charity.

WOW.

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who is a co-founder and the CEO of Twitter, and the founder and CEO of Square, a financial payments company.

Dorsey was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Tim and Marcia (née Smith) Dorsey. He is of English, Irish, and Italian descent. His father worked for a company that developed mass spectrometers and his mother was a homemaker.

He was raised Catholic, and his uncle is a Catholic priest in Cincinnati. He attended the Catholic Bishop DuBourg High School. In his younger days, Dorsey worked occasionally as a fashion model. By age 14, Dorsey had become interested in dispatch routing. Some of the open-source software he created in the area of dispatch logistics is still used by taxicab companies.

Dorsey enrolled at the University of Missouri–Rolla in 1995 and attended for two-plus years before transferring to New York University in 1997, but he dropped out two years later, one semester short of graduating. He came up with the idea that he developed as Twitter while studying at NYU.