Inside the ‘odd eccentric’ life of ‘checked out’ Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

Even among Silicon Valley’s oddball geniuses, Jack Dorsey still stands out for his eccentricities.“He’s almost like one of those Russian dolls, with a new outer shell put on every couple of years,” Nick Bilton, author of “Hatching Twitter,” told The Post of Dorsey’s fashion sense. “He went through a phase where he wore these weird Dior Homme [reverse collar] shirts. Now he’s in his [designer] Rick Owens bohemian phase. At one point he was obsessed with wabi-sabi, a Japanese design philosophy that is odd and eccentric. There’ve been jeans and A-line skirts.”The tech world was rocked Monday by the announcement that Dorsey — the one-time punk rocker, NYU dropout, licensed masseur and would-be fashion designer — would be stepping down as CEO of Twitter, the company he co-founded in 2006.“Nobody expected Jack to reach the heights that he did,” said a former employee. “He used to be a semi-homeless, hippie, software developer who couch surfed.“In many ways he is the anti CEO. Those guys are douchey dudes and he is his own person. He’s just a different guy. Whoever takes Jack’s place at Twitter will be less distinctive than Jack.” (Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will take the lead.)Shareholders, meanwhile, could not be happier. When CNBC announced the 45-year-old’s abdication, Twitter stock spiked by more than 11 percent. Maybe they were relieved to not be faced with any more stories like the time rapper Azealia Banks claimed Dorsey had sent clippings of his Rip Van Winkle-like beard so she could use them for a protective amulet. Dorsey denied it, and Banks’ Twitter post about it has since been deleted. The beard, meanwhile, has its own tongue-in-cheek fan account. This isn’t the first time Dorsey has stepped down, either. He originally served as CEO for the first 18 months of Twitter’s existence, from April 2007 until October 2008, when he quit to be replaced by the more buttoned-up Evan Williams. By the time Dorsey retook the post in 2015, his sensibilities had shifted from nerdy start-up founder — who once covered his nose ring with a Band-Aid when a boss asked him to get rid of it — to full-on bohemian. The former employee believes that Dorsey brought good things to Twitter but that the tech guru has too many distractions to keep him in one place right now. After all, this is a man who has said he tries to meditate for two hours each day.“He was extremely hard working and spent a huge amount of time to build the company. But his interests were too expansive for him to be a focused CEO,” the former employee said. Bilton is less generous. “A lot of people,” he told The Post, “think Dorsey is a checked-out CEO.”Dorsey has said he will focus more on digital-payments system Square and his philanthropy. Meanwhile, among the extracurricular interests drawing his attention is wooing some of the most attractive women on the planet.


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