'One could change the world in 140 characters' is the motto of Jack Dorsey, the founder of which website?
"to $1.59 million. In March 2018, Dorsey announced that an improved version of the verification system is coming to Twitter. The purpose of redesigning verification is to let people verify more facts about themselves, emphasizing proof of identity. The overhaul was not in place before the U.S midterm election of 2018 to help in verifying the identities of the candidates. In September 2018, Dorsey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Following this testimony, Twitter shares fell 6%. Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim McKelvey, developed a small business platform"
"created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as ""the SMS of the Internet"". As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. Since 2015, and continuing into 2016 and future years, Twitter has also been the home"
"company a valuation of around US$31 billion. The paperwork from show of November 7 that among the founders, Williams received a sum of US$2.56 billion and Dorsey received US$1.05 billion, while Costolo's payment was US$345 million. On February 5, 2014, Twitter published its first results as a public company, showing a net loss of $511 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. On January 5, 2016, CEO Jack Dorsey commented on a report that Twitter planned to expand its character limit to 10,000 (private messages already had the longer limit as of July), requiring users to click to see anything"
"as co-founder, board member, and investor. In October 2008, Williams became CEO of Twitter, displacing Jack Dorsey, who became chairman of the board. By February 2009, Compete.com ranked Twitter the third most-used social network, based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits. As of February 2013, Twitter had 200 million registered users. It gets 300,000 new users a day and, as of August 2015, was ranked twelfth in the world. It receives more than 300 million unique visitors and more than five billion people in traffic a month. 75% of its traffic comes"
"its staff had grown to 170 people in 18 countries. Ben Rattray Benjamin Michael ""Ben"" Rattray (born June 16, 1980) is the founder and CEO of the online petition website Change.org, which he founded in 2007. Rattray was included in the 2012 ""Time"" 100 list of the world's most influential people, listed as one of ""Fortune's"" 40 Under 40 rising young business leaders of 2012, and given the Commonwealth Club of California's 21st Century Visionary Award in 2014. Rattray was born in 1980 in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Judy (née McCaffrey), a county sales manager at First American"
"as a way to include students who are at home due to illness into collaborative discussions held in class. Twitter is an established micro-blogging service available to individuals with Internet access world-wide and provides unlimited access to social networks for its users, to send and receive messages. In 2006, it was funded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. One of the common site users is media outlets to broadcast current news updates. For this reason, people use Twitter as a daily source of information to inform themselves on local and world news. Another way that Twitter"
"Sf.citi The San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, or sf.citi, is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization that advocates for the technology community in the San Francisco Bay Area. At least 500 member companies, including many in the technology sector such as Google, Facebook, Zynga, and Salesforce.com, are supporters of sf.citi. sf.citi created a video advocating for the passing of Proposition E in the 2012 San Francisco General Elections that was featured on the homepage of Youtube.com on October 9, 2012. The video featured Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, and Twitter and Obvious Corp. co-founder Biz Stone."
"Jennifer Dulski Jennifer Dulski is a technology executive in Silicon Valley. She left Google in January 2013 to become president and COO of Change.org. Dulski was one of the first 500 employees at Yahoo! and rose in the ranks during her 9-year tenure to eventually serve as group vice president and general manager of local and commerce. After Yahoo! she was co-founder and CEO of The Dealmap, which was acquired in 2011 by Google, where she spent almost two years as a senior executive. Dulski’s first job after college was founding and running Summerbridge Pittsburgh (part of the Breakthrough Collaborative),"
"the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google is the most valuable brand in the world but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. Google's mission statement is ""to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"", and its unofficial slogan was ""Don't be evil"". In October 2015, the motto was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the phrase """"Do the right thing"""", while the original one"
"in ""The New York Times"", ""Forbes"", the ""Financial Post"", ""Inc."", and VentureBeat. David Hassell David Hassell is an American entrepreneur, marketer, and adventurer. He is the founder and CEO of 15Five, an employee feedback system. Hassell graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (BSCpE) in 1998. In 1999, he co-founded AdClip Networks, an online advertising technology company aimed at creating alternatives to the predominant banner ads of the day, starting with online coupons that could be “clipped” off a web page. It was later re-branded as Endai Worldwide and focused more broadly on a variety"
"of debates, and news covering Politics of the United States, especially during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Nomination, and 2018 United States Midterms, with Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news on the day of the 2016 election, with 40 million election-related tweets sent by 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) that day. Twitter's origins lie in a ""daylong brainstorming session"" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small"
"than 150 countries and more than 1,500 start-ups spread over 21 venues. Among the more than 600 speakers were a number of tech top executives from around the world, including John Chambers of Cisco Systems, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Tesla's Elon Musk. Also speaking at the event were prominent figures from non-tech areas, such as U2 frontman Bono, Salil Shetty of Amnesty International and Joana Coles, Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan, as well as footballer Luís Figo and both the Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister António Costa. On October 3, 2018,"
"to its IPO. For the fiscal year 2017, Square reported losses of US$63 million, with an annual revenue of US$2.214 billion, an increase of 29.6% over the previous fiscal cycle. Square's shares traded at over $75 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at US$32 billion in November 2018. Square was co-founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey. Dorsey also serves as chief executive officer and Sarah Friar serves as chief financial officer. Square's office is in San Francisco. The firm has more than 2,000 employees. Square has been available in the United States since 2010 and the company launched"
"network and news site Reddit, famously labelled as the “front page of the internet”, has secured $50 million of investments from multiple sources; from global venture capital firms such as Andreessen Horrowitz to an array of celebrities such as the renowned rapper Snoop Dogg. CEO of Reddit Yishan Wong, has stated that the funding will go towards expanding Reddit’s moderately low staff numbers of only 60, as well as developing new tools for community management and moderation; 10% of Reddit's 2014 ad revenue will also go towards charity. Investment in social media Social Media consists of a myriad of means"
"is the product of these methods. On 16 March 2009, Marcel Theroux presented ""In Search of Wabi Sabi"" on BBC Four as part of the channel's ""Hidden Japan"" season of programming. Theroux traveled throughout Japan trying to understand the aesthetic tastes of its people, beginning by comically enacting a challenge from the book ""Living Wabi Sabi"" by Taro Gold to ""ask people on a Tokyo street to describe Wabi Sabi."" Theroux showed that, just as Gold predicted, ""they will likely give you a polite shrug and explain that Wabi Sabi is simply unexplainable."" Jack Dorsey, the billionaire founder of Twitter"
"company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web. His other projects and ideas at this time included networks of medical devices and a ""frictionless service market"". In July 2000, building on dispatching and inspired in part by LiveJournal and by AOL Instant Messenger, he had the idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service. When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user status output could be shared easily among friends. He approached Odeo, which at the time happened to be interested in text messaging. Dorsey and Biz Stone"
"Ben Rattray Benjamin Michael ""Ben"" Rattray (born June 16, 1980) is the founder and CEO of the online petition website Change.org, which he founded in 2007. Rattray was included in the 2012 ""Time"" 100 list of the world's most influential people, listed as one of ""Fortune's"" 40 Under 40 rising young business leaders of 2012, and given the Commonwealth Club of California's 21st Century Visionary Award in 2014. Rattray was born in 1980 in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Judy (née McCaffrey), a county sales manager at First American Title, and Michael Rattray, CEO of the Boys & Girls"
"path to personal fitness."" In February 2016, Costolo joined Index Ventures as a partner. Dick Costolo Richard William Costolo ( ) (born September 10, 1963) was the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010. On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo would step down as CEO on July 1, 2015 and would be replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey on an interim basis until the Board of Directors could find a replacement. On August 8, 2015,"
"hundred employees by June 2011. Square's office is located on Market Street in San Francisco. In September 2012, ""Business Insider"" magazine valued Square Inc. at US$3.2 billion. Dorsey is CEO of Square, Inc. On October 14, 2015, Square filed for an IPO to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. As of that date, Dorsey owned 24.4% of the company. Producer Tom Anderson and correspondent Lara Logan interviewed Dorsey for a segment of CBS ""60 Minutes"" called ""The Innovator: Jack Dorsey"" which aired during March 2013. In 2013, talking to CNN, Dorsey expressed admiration for Michael Bloomberg and his"
"producing a fraudulent Boston Marathon bib for his wife, Chelsa Crowley, to use. He apologized for his actions. In a statement, Crowley admitted what he had done had ""overshadowed the event for those who ran and those who ran to honor others"". Crowley was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders. Dennis Crowley Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare. Crowley was born in Medway, Massachusetts to Mary Moraski Crowley and Dennis P Crowley. He graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School"
"attempt to entice new users, since the number of tweets per day had dropped to about 300 million in January 2016 compared to about 500 million in September 2013 and its peak of 661 million in August 2014. On November 22, 2016, Dorsey was briefly suspended from his own Twitter user account with 3.9 million followers. After restoring the account, Dorsey tweeted the suspension was due to an ""internal mistake"". In February 2017, Dorsey and Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani matched a $530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised by Twitter staffers. Their match brought the total donation"
"Chineasy Chineasy is an Internet startup created with the purpose of teaching characters, created by the entrepreneur Shaolan Hsueh. For visual learners the human brain is able to memorize information better if it is put into a visual context. The approach is to learn Chinese characters with the help of illustrations to help memorizing Chinese characters better. The 2014 book ""Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese"" contains about 400 characters. It was based on her 2013 TED talk and funded via a crowdfunding campaign through Kickstarter. While the book introduces common Chinese characters, it does not teach pronunciation or"
"eBay, American Express, reddit, Google, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, English Wikipedia, Entertainment Consumers Association and Uncyclopedia. Internet entrepreneurs including Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, and Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley signed a letter to Congress expressing their opposition to the legislation. The Tea Party Patriots have argued that the bill ""is bad for consumers"". A letter of opposition was signed by 130 technology entrepreneurs and executives and sent to Congress to express their concern that the law in its present form would ""hurt economic growth and chill innovation in legitimate services that help people create, communicate,"
"decided that SMS text suited the status-message idea, and built a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks. The idea attracted many users at Odeo and investment from Evan Williams, who had left Google after selling Pyra Labs and Blogger. Williams, Stone and Noah Glass co-founded Obvious Corporation, which then spun off Twitter, Inc., with Dorsey as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who backed the company. He reportedly lost his position for leaving work early to enjoy other pursuits, such as yoga and"
"Twitter Twitter, Inc. () is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as ""tweets"". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or its mobile-device application software (""app""). Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter was"
"Odyssey (publication) Odyssey (also known as The Odyssey or The Odyssey Online) is an American internet media company that operates based on a crowdsourced model, receiving articles from a base of thousands of volunteer authors and edited through their teams of volunteer, outsourced, and professional content strategists. The platform produces material covering virtually all major topics, including politics, sports, fashion, technology, business, science, and health, among others. Odyssey has over 15,000 contributing writers, 1,200 communities, and over 30 million readers across the country. Each community consists of at least 12 writers, a voluntary Editor-In-Chief, and a content strategist based in"
"June 2017, Twitter revamped its dashboard to improve the new user experience. As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of capital funding by the venture capitalists who backed the company. On October 16, 2008, Williams took over the role of CEO, and Dorsey became chairman of the board. On October 4, 2010, Williams announced that he was stepping down as CEO. Dick Costolo, formerly Twitter's chief operating officer, became CEO. On October 4, 2010, Williams made an announcement saying that he will stay with the company and ""be completely focused on product strategy"". According to ""The"
"Mobility, Cleanweb: Energy, Environment, and Resilience, Healthy Living, and Lifelong Learning. The competition also included events where organizations and City agencies versed in a “BigIssue” presented data sets and ideas to competitors. Judges for the contest have included: Dawn Barber, Co-founder, New York Tech Meetup; John Borthwick, CEO, Betaworks; Chris Dixon, CEO & Co-founder, Hunch; Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square, and Co-founder, Twitter; Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure; Lawrence Lenihan, Founder, CEO and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital; Naveen Selvadurai, Co-founder, Foursquare; Steven Strauss, Managing Director, NYCEDC; Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Director, All Things Digital; Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures. NYC"
"on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST): ""just setting up my twttr"". Dorsey has explained the origin of the ""Twitter"" title: ...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006. In October 2006, Biz Stone, Evan"
"Resorts, Salon.com, and Air New Zealand. Trazzler is designed for use on the iOS, Android, and Facebook. Trazzler Trazzler is a travel destination app that specializes in unique and local destinations. The initial concept was developed by Adam Rugel and Biz Stone in 2006 at Twitter's original offices under the name ""71 miles"". More than 10,000 writers and photographers have contributed and more than $350,000 in freelance contracts have been issued as a result of Trazzeler's weekly writing and photography contests. Investors in the company include SV Angel, AOL Founder Steve Case, and the Twitter founders, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey,"
"platform to capture every behavior of the audience to deliver contextually relevant content based on the intent and navigation path. According to the CEO, a major emphasis was also put on responsive web design, removal of pages that were not valuable to the audience, and allowing a new content platform to drive the site experience. In June, 2016, Business.com was acquired by the Purch Group. Business.com produces daily content, in which the staff reporters and market experts are featured. In 2014, the company's Daily Business Quote of the Day was featured by Time Inc. as one of the 27 Pinterest"
"Democratic conventions during the U.S. presidential campaign as part of a partnership with CBS News, Dreamhack and ESL eSports events, and winning a bid for non-exclusive streaming rights to ten NFL ""Thursday Night Football"" games in the 2016 season. During an event in New York in May 2017, Twitter announced that it planned to construct a 24-hour streaming video channel hosted within the service, featuring content from various partners. CEO Jack Dorsey stated that the digital video strategy was part of a goal for Twitter to be ""the first place that anyone hears of anything going on that matters to"
"Global Entrepreneurship. He was also named in the Youngest Forbes 400 list in 2016. Brian Chesky Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American billionaire Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of ""Time's"" ""100 Most Influential People of 2015"". Brian Chesky was born on August 29, 1981 in Niskayuna, New York. He is the son of Deborah and Robert H. Chesky; His father is of Polish descent and his mother is of Italian origin. Chesky's parents were both social workers. He has a younger"