The wild life of billionaire Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who eats one meal a day, has faced attempted oustings, and is now cleaning up after a colossal hack that took over 130 high-profile Twitter accounts
- Jack Dorsey cofounded Twitter in 2006, and the company has made him a billionaire.
- He is famous for his unusual life of luxury, including a daily fasting routine, regular ice baths, and a penchant for dating models.
- Dorsey holds two CEO jobs at Twitter and Square, and activist investor Elliott Management has threatened to oust him from Twitter.
- Dorsey is now on damage control following a massive July 15 hack on Twitter that compromised more than 100 accounts, including those of Elon Musk and Barack Obama.
- A lawmaker is calling for Dorsey to join his fellow tech leaders of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook in an antitrust hearing designed to investigate the firms' monopolistic grip of the market.
From fighting armies of bots to quashing rumors about sending his beard hair to rapper Azealia Banks, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey leads an unusual life of luxury.
Dorsey has had a turbulent career in Silicon Valley. After cofounding Twitter in 2006, he was booted as the company's CEO two years later, but returned in 2015 having set up his second company, Square.
Since then, he has led the company through the techlash that has engulfed social media companies, at one point testifying before Congress alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
His latest threat comes from Elliott Management, an activist investor seeking Dorsey's removal from Twitter, per Bloomberg reporting. The firm holds substantial stock in Twitter and four board seats.
And on July 15, hackers compromised 130 Twitter accounts, including those of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Kanye West, in a bitcoin scam. The hack exposed the security risks of the platform, and now a lawmaker is calling upon Dorsey to appear in an upcoming antitrust hearing that will feature the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
Dorsey has elsewhere provoked his fair share of controversy and criticism, extolling fasting and ice baths as part of his daily routine. His existence is not entirely spartan, however. Like some other billionaires, he owns a stunning house, dates models, and drives fast cars.
Scroll on to read more about the fabulous life of Jack Dorsey.
Rebecca Borison and Madeline Stone contributed reporting to an earlier version of this story.
Dorsey began programming while attending Bishop DuBourg High School in St. Louis.
When he wasn't checking out specialty electronics stores or running a fantasy football league for his friends, Dorsey frequently attended punk-rock concerts.
Like many of his fellow tech billionaires, Dorsey never graduated college.
In 2000, Dorsey built a simple prototype that let him update his friends on his life via BlackBerry and email messaging.
Fun fact: Jack Dorsey is also a licensed masseur.
He got a job at a podcasting company called Odeo, where he met his future Twitter cofounders.
On March 21, 2006, Dorsey posted the first tweet.
Dorsey and his cofounders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, bought the Twitter domain name for roughly $7,000.
A year later, Dorsey was already less hands-on at Twitter.
In 2011, Dorsey got the chance to interview US President Barack Obama in the first Twitter Town Hall.
Twitter went public in November 2013, and within hours Dorsey was a billionaire.
It was revealed in a 2019 filing that Dorsey earned just $1.40 for his job as Twitter CEO the previous year.
He might have been worth more had he not given back 10% of his stock to Square.
With his newfound wealth, he bought a BMW 3 Series, but reportedly doesn't drive it often.
He also reportedly paid $9.9 million for this seaside house on El Camino Del Mar in the exclusive Seacliff neighborhood of San Francisco.
He works from home one day a week.
He also told Kara Swisher that Elon Musk is his favourite Twitter user.
Facebook CEO and rival Mark Zuckerberg once served Jack Dorsey a goat he killed himself.
His eating habits have raised eyebrows.
In the early days of Twitter, Dorsey aspired to be a fashion designer.
He also re-introduced the nose-ring and grew a beard.
Singer Azealia Banks claimed to have been sent clippings of Dorsey's beard hair to fashion into a protective amulet, although Dorsey denied this happened.
Dorsey frequently travels the world and shares his photos with his 4 million Twitter followers.
Tweets about his vacation in Myanmar also provoked an outcry.
However, Dorsey says he doesn't care about "looking bad."
In September 2018, Jack Dorsey was grilled by lawmakers alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
During the hearing, Dorsey shared a snapshot of his spiking heart rate on Twitter.
When he's not in Washington, Dorsey regularly hops in and out of ice baths and saunas.
Dorsey's dating life has sparked intrigue. In 2018, he was reported to be dating Sports Illustrated model Raven Lyn Corneil.
He's a big believer in cryptocurrency, frequently tweeting about its virtues.
At the end of 2019 Dorsey said he would move to Africa for at least three months in 2020.
Dorsey then came under threat of being ousted as Twitter CEO by activist investor Elliott Management.
Tesla CEO and frequent Twitter user Elon Musk weighed in on the news, throwing his support behind Dorsey.
Dorsey managed to strike a truce with Elliott Management.
On April 7, Dorsey announced that he was forming a new charity fund that would help in global relief efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic.
On July 15, hackers compromised 130 Twitter accounts in a bitcoin scam.
The hack is one of the largest of its kind in Twitter's history.
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