Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’

In the league of legends of Silicon Valley, Jack Dorsey — the co-founder of Twitter who stepped down as CEO a year ago this month — has long had a reputation as the cool hippie with the beard who likes to go off and meditate in between dating models and fasting.

Now, barely a week since his fellow billionaire businessman Elon Musk snapped up Twitter for $44 billion, Dorsey, 46, is launching a social media company called Bluesky: a new kind of decentralized platform that promises to give users and developers more autonomy. More than 30,000 subscribers have already signed up, the company tweeted on Oct. 20.

Bluesky, which is in the beta testing phase, was commissioned by Dorsey as an answer to some of the problems he saw at Twitter.