Jack Dorsey says entrepreneurs have to take risks, experience failure, and learn from their mistakes in this excerpt from our exclusive interview conducted by MBA’14 Kasey Joyce. Dorsey was on campus April 5 in advance of the Clinton Global Initiative University.
Olin’s exclusive interview with Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey continues with a question about what he gains by visiting college campuses and talking to students.
@Jack Part 2: Dorsey on the acceptance of failure and learning from your mistakes.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Square, Inc., co-founder of Twitter, spent an hour with business and engineering school students in May Auditorium April 5 before the start of the Clinton Global Initiative University.
Kasey Joyce, MBA’14, got an exclusive one-on-one interview with Dorsey after his presentation and asked Jack about the relationship between engineering and business in the startup world. Check back this week for more excerpts from this interview.
Photo by Joe Angeles / WUSTL Photos
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and co-founder and CEO of Square, spent the morning with engineering and business students before participating in the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative University this evening at Wash U.
Dorsey grew up in St. Louis and shared some special memories of his hometown, childhood and what inspires him in a presentation that waxed poetic about art and revolution and wove philosophical thoughts on meaning with practical advice to future entrepreneurs.
“Growing up, I never wanted to be an entrepreneur,” said Dorsey at the outset of his talk in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium.
He wanted to be a sailor and explore the world.
Then he wanted to be a tailor – he loved watching people who take pride and care in their work.
Then he wanted to be a surrealist painter.
He showed this photogram by Man Ray.
Jack Dorsey spoke eloquently about how artists see the world in a different way and, in turn, show the world different perspectives.
He said he read a lot of Sci Fi when he was a kid and shared a quote from one of his favorite authors, William Gibson:
“Remember this quote,” Dorsey advised the audience. “Your job is to create and distribute the future evenly.”
Come back to the blog, to watch video excerpts from an interview with Jack Dorsey that was recorded immediately after his Simon Hall talk with Kasey Joyce, MBA’14 and student videographers Emma Kane (Arts & Sciences ’15), and Marc Niemeyer (Arts & Sciences ’14). All pictured above in the makeshift studio outside May Auditorium.
Want to spend the night with former President Bill Clinton and a panel of new and veteran entrepreneurs April 5? It’s the star-studded Opening Plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative University’s 2013 meeting on the Danforth Campus, but you’ve got to play to win a ticket.
Enter the CGIU ticket lottery on WebSTAC.
CGI U will be offering student tickets to the Friday night session, which will take place from 6:30 – 8 p.m. on April 5.
The tickets, available only to currently enrolled students on both the Danforth and Medical campuses, will be distributed through an online lottery.
Interested students can enter the lottery through WebSTAC beginning March 6. The lottery will close Monday, April 1 at 12:00 p.m. Lottery participants will be notified of their status by April 2.
The Opening Plenary session, moderated by President Clinton, will feature the following speakers:
Photo Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative
Pres. Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart at the 2012 CGIU, George Washington University
