Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Square and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said today that founders must be willing to accept new ideas -- which can come from anywhere -- if they want their companies to evolve and to keep disrupting existing industries.
Opening his keynote address at TechCrunch Disrupt here today, Dorsey noted that he didn't grow up wanting to be an entrepreneur. Now that he's helped start two of the most important companies in Silicon Valley, though, Dorsey said he wanted to share some of the lessons he's learned during his career, ideas that he clearly thinks can help existing startup founders succeed.
To begin with, he urged, founders need to be open to the kinds of new ideas that can shift what they're doing, and end up making their companies even more vital than before. And those ideas don't necessarily come from within. "An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere," Dorsey said.
As inspiration, Dorsey touted the philosophies of America's founding fathers. He said that while they came up with the notion of a "more perfect union," they realized they weren't going to get it all right the first time around. "A lot of the work had to be unfinished," he said, "open to change [and] e... [Read more]
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