“Silicon Valley just got a little less weird,” said Io Dodds in The Independent. Jack Dorsey, the “raggedy- bearded, nose-ring-sporting” boss of Twitter has announced his resignation from the social network he co-founded 15 years ago.
This is actually the second time Dorsey, a former botanical illustrator, has quit – he was fired from his own company in 2008 for, among other things, “doing too much yoga” and attending fashion evening courses. “You can either be a dress-maker or the CEO of Twitter, but you can’t be both,” co-founder Evan Williams told him. When Dorsey returned in 2015, critics wondered whether he could simultaneously run Square, the payment provider he founded after his firing.
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