Before Twitter, Jack Dorsey Wasn't So Big on Capitalism

Forget IPOs and shareholders, co-founder once wanted to revert to the barter sytem

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, is about to make a fortune, but there was a time he wanted nothing to do with the almighty dollar.

In old Internet posts, which were published today by Valleywag, Dorsey wrote about wanting to revert to a barter system.

“I also wish to end my dependence on the American Dollar ($), and in that vain am setting up a bartering network,” a younger Dorsey wrote.

Dorsey’s thoughts in the online posts were mostly scrubbed from the Internet but were brought back thanks to archive.org,

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