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Jack Dorsey Was PUSHED Out of the Company He Built

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The man who gave the world its loudest megaphone rarely raised his voice, and lost the stage he built.

Jack Dorsey grew up quiet in St. Louis, obsessed with how dispatchers routed taxis.

At fifteen he wrote dispatch software, then dropped out chasing a stranger idea.

On March 21, 2006, he sent the first tweet ever: just setting up my twttr.

Twitter exploded, but in 2008 the board pushed the young founder aside.

He started over, co-founding Square in 2009, turning a phone into a card reader.

Twitter drifted without him. The platform built for every voice could not find its own.

In 2015 the board begged him back, the introvert steering its loudest voice.

The megaphone grew deafening: harassment, misinformation, and a banned president made every choice a war.

In 2021 he stepped away, the quiet boy who had wired a planet to speak.

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