Tag: Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey Says This Was His ‘Biggest Failing’ at Twitter

Twitter, Inc.’s co-founder Jack Dorsey, who gave up his chief executive officer role at the social media platform late last year, shared his insights into what it would take to reinvigorate the platform. Owning Up Responsibility: Twitter has always tried to do its best, given the information it had, Dorsey said in a series of…


Jack Dorsey: Twitter Reinstated NY Post’s Account ‘Almost Immediately’ After Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Jack Dorsey, the former chief executive at Twitter, said the social media company reinstated the New York Post’s account “almost immediately,” although the paper had said it was locked out for more than two weeks. Days after it was announced that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would take over the company, Dorsey posted that Twitter “went…


Decentralized Twitter Spinoff Company Distances Itself From Musk

Bluesky, the project developing a decentralized Twitter Inc. alternative announced in 2019, distanced itself from its parent company after it was acquired by tech tycoon and the world’s richest man Elon Musk. What Happened: In a Monday Twitter thread, Bluesky announced that it wanted to leverage “the surge of interest in Twitter’s future […] to clarify the relationship between Bluesky…


‘Elon Is the Singular Solution I Trust’: Jack Dorsey Throws Support Behind Musk After Twitter Takeover Approved

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, threw his support behind Elon Musk’s deal to take the social media platform private, with a Twitter thread that begins with a link to Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place.” The Twitter board had unanimously approved the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s unsolicited offer amidst polarizing reactions…


Dorsey Rips Twitter Board for ‘Dysfunction’ After Musk Accuses It of Failing to Represent Shareholders

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey penned a scathing tweet over the weekend calling the company’s board of directors a consistent source of dysfunction after Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused the Twitter board of failing to represent the interest of shareholders. Dorsey made the remark in a tweet thread initiated by Garry Tan, co-founder of Initialized Capital, who…


Can Elon Musk Defeat the Censors?

Commentary A remarkable and truth-telling post appeared over the weekend from the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Despite how the platform went to heck under his leadership—presuming he really ever had control—he has done good for the world. For years, he has seemed to object to how his own company was operating….


Twitter’s Former CEO Jack Dorsey Says He’s ‘Partially to Blame’ for Centralization of Internet, Regrets It

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey has said he is “partially to blame” for the centralization of the internet while revealing his regret for having done so. Dorsey took to Twitter on April 2 where he made the comment, writing that the “days of usenet, irc, the web…even email (w PGP)…were amazing. centralizing discovery…


Musk Asks Twittersphere ‘Do You Want an Edit Button?’ After Buying His Way to Largest Shareholder

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday created a Twitter poll asking users if they want an edit button on the platform, shortly after becoming the social media giant’s biggest individual shareholder. “Do you want an edit button?” he asked the Twittersphere. Musk on Monday took a 9.2 percent stake in the company, according to a…


Twitter-Funded Social Media Project Bluesky Adds Jack Dorsey to Board

Bluesky, a Twitter Inc-funded project that is seeking to rebuild how social media companies operate, said on Monday Twitter co-founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey will join the company’s board. Bluesky is working to build a technology that would allow different social media companies to operate on the same standard, which would enable developers…


‘Has Anyone Seen Web3?’ Musk, Dorsey Mock Tech’s Latest Buzzword

Billionaires Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey dismissed the so-called Web3 and criticized the involvement of venture capital firms such as Andreessen Horowitz in building out what some have called the next phase of the Internet. Web3, a vague term for a utopian version of the Internet that is decentralized, is based on digital record-keeping technology…