TIP242: Billionaire Jack Dorsey - Lessons From Twitter and Square (Business Podcast)
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Stig Brodersen
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TI-P. |
| 0:30.0 | For the delay, here's our episode on the thoughtful Jack Dorsey. |
| 0:34.0 | You are listening to the Investors Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Where we study the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most. |
| 0:45.0 | We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to the Investors Podcast on your host, Preston Pish, and is always on the company by my co-host, Stig Broderson. |
| 1:04.0 | We're covering Jack Dorsey today. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's jump right into the first question we want to cover. |
| 1:11.0 | This might sound surprising to some folks, but Jack actually got his inspiration for Twitter by studying the way taxi drivers communicated. |
| 1:21.0 | When he was asked about this idea, this is how he responded. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, I really missed the boat on creating Uber, but I was huge into dispatch. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm from St. Louis, Missouri, and in the 40s, 50s and 60s, a lot of people left the city and moved out to the suburbs. |
| 1:38.0 | My parents always stood by the city. |
| 1:40.0 | For me, it developed this obsession and fascination with cities as well. |
| 1:44.0 | The way that really manifested for me were maps. |
| 1:48.0 | I was just obsessed with maps and I would get lost in them constantly just wondering what was happening down this street and whatnot. |
| 1:57.0 | I had tons of maps of St. Louis and tons of maps of my other favorite city that I had never been to, which is New York City. |
| 2:04.0 | My parents also had a police scanner, always in a CB radio. |
| 2:10.0 | I would always listen to the trucks and the police and the fire trucks and the ambulances. |
| 2:18.0 | Eventually, my parents got an IBM PC Junior and a Macintosh. |
| 2:25.0 | I would actually take the information from the police scanner and plot it out on my paper maps. |
| 2:31.0 | I would watch the police cars move because they're always reporting where they are and where they're going, what they're doing. |
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