I feel like people who say this do it to downplay his accomplishments. It's a very negative tone.

Yes, it's a negative tone. My feeling is that he unjustifiably self-identifies with Jobs. As mentioned, I've recently read 'Hatching Twitter' and it paints him in an unseemly light.

I don't see how the comment is downplaying his accomplishments though.

Interesting. I haven't really read that book but it seems that most really successful people have had to behave in very cutthroat ways no? Of course I may be saying this with subject to some selection bias. We have our standard set of Bill Gates, Zuck, Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey, etc to provide some weight to the statement but I'm sure there are many many noble leaders that I haven't heard of that weren't as ruthless but maybe that's why they haven't achieved the same level of success? I'm not sure.

I'd love to read the book but I'd love it even more if you could give an overview of the sentiments echoed in "Hatching Twitter".

In any case, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you that Jack is an unlikable person, but was simply pointing out that almost every time someone has said "Oh he thinks he's Steve Jobs", it's often to downplay the story at hand. It's cool that Jack is on the board of Disney, that a significant accomplishment.

> I'd love to read the book but I'd love it even more if you could give an overview of the sentiments echoed in "Hatching Twitter".

The book credits him with seeding the concept for Twitter, but certainly not for fleshing it out. At a very early stage, Jack was ousted as CEO and left with no role at Twitter other than a board seat with no actual voting rights. While the rest of the team made the product what it is today, and scaled the business to .5bn users, Jack was on the outside doing nothing. Despite this he pandered extensively to the media lying about his non-existent role at the company and daubing himself the 'inventor' of Twitter.

All that said, I've enjoyed watching some of Jack's talks, and I think Square is incredible (more so than Twitter).

Does Dorsey also scream at his subordinates? I thought he had a calmer persona.

I'm not sure how he treats his 'subordinates'. I recently read 'Hatching Twitter', in which he's portrayed as a ruthless manipulator.

Just read the description on Amazon,

• Evan “Ev” Williams, the ambitious farm boy from Clarks, Nebraska, who had already created Blogger and sold it to Google for millions. Quiet and protective...

• Jack Dorsey, the tattooed “nobody” who helped mastermind the original concept of Twitter, became a billionaire tech titan...

Anyone else find it funny how Medium and Stripe exactly portray those two personalities?

Perhaps you meant square, not stripe?

My bad, yes square.