Words: Tom Ward
“Farewell to Jack Dorsey, the weirdest CEO in Silicon Valley,“ Io Dodds wrote in the Independent this week as the news broke that the 45 year old Twitter founder was stepping down in order to fully dedicate himself to his other passion project: cryptocurrency.
Or, more specifically, the payments platform Square, which Dorsey co-founded in 2009. (“Tech Crunch led with the headline Jack Dorsey dials in on his dream job” ran a Tech Crunch headline).
“There’s a lot of talk about the importance of a company being ‘founder-led’. Ultimately, I believe that’s severely limiting and a single point of failure,” Dorsey said in a statement released on – where else – Twitter.
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