What is Jack Dorseys net worth?
JACK Dorsey is the man behind the social media site Twitter. Twitter Chairman Jack Dorsey is another person under attack by former President Donald Trump as he sues him and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. As of 2021, the technology entrepreneur and philanthropist, has an estimated net worth of $13.8billion, according to Forbes. While being the Twitter co-founder has a large part to do with his extensive net worth, Celebrity Net Worth reports that his stake in the mobile payments company Square is where the majority of his net worth comes from. Dorsey owns 2% of Twitter's shares, which is worth an estimated $800million, and he owns 43 million shares of Square, which has an estimated worth of $9billion. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, at an early age Dorsey excelled in technology. At just 15 years old he wrote taxi dispatch software that is still used by some taxicab companies today. Two years later, Dorsey hacked New York City's largest taxi dispatch company and was offered a job. With all the money Dorsey has earned over the years, he has also given back. In April 2020, he donated $1billion to Start Small, an LLC he started. "I'm moving $1billion of my Square equity (around 28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global Covid-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl's health and education and UBI [Universal Basic Income]. It will operate transparently" Dorsey tweeted on April 7, 2020. In March 2021, Dorsey also tried selling the first ever tweet as an NFT collectors item. After receiving a permanent suspension on social media platforms after the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, Trump has decided to sue Facebook, Twitter, and Google over alleged censorship. "I stand before you this morning to announce a very important development for our freedom and freedom of speech," Trump said in a press conference on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. "In conjunction with the America First Policy Institute, I'm filing, as the lead class-action representative, a major class-action lawsuit against the big tech giants, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, as well as their CEOs." The big tech companies suspended him over his false claims that the presidential election was stolen, alleging that his social media presence contributed to the violence at the Capitol. "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them  specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter  we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," Twitter explained in their decision. The lawsuit will be filed in the Southern District of Florida. Dorsey is the son of Tim and Marcia Dorsey. While his parents are happily together, Dorsey himself has never married. He tends to keep a low profile when it comes to dating. In 2018, he was rumored to be dating Sports Illustrated model Raven Lyn Corneil after Page Six Reported the two were spotted together at the Harper's Bazaar Icons party during New York Fashion Week.