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“I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.”

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Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey, born in November 1976, is an outstanding businessman known for his innovative work in the fields of social media and mobile payments. He is best known as the co-founder of Twitter and Square. more

“I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.”

World Giving Bigs Wanted Cities Information Happenings Flow Screens Bags Maps Packages Transfers Big Screen

Author:Jack Dorsey

“I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.”

Long Said Reality Cities Long Time Instant Feedback Long Time Ago Twitter And Facebook Foursquare Annotation

Author:Jack Dorsey

“I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.”

People Ideas Individual Acting Keys Concepts Organization Following Topics Tweet

Author:Jack Dorsey

“It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.”

Matter Thirds Coffee Providing Versus Invitations Rail Foursquare

Author:Jack Dorsey