We all know that Twitter is a major driver of conversation on the web, and co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is currently on a week-long trip to India, his first visit, to further express his platform's true purpose and contact base with the country's youth.
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After meeting Congress President Rahul Gandhi this morning, your CEO attended a 'Town Hall' session at IIT Delhi today, under the #Powerof18 program to talk to the youth of India, who would soon turn 18, and get the right to vote.
During the session, Dorsey shed light on his journey so far—dropping out of college, building Twitter to fulfill his childhood passion, and now shifting his focus toward fostering self-awareness. He added that there is one thing that has made him who he is today:
I never really wanted to be a CEO, I never wanted to be an entrepreneur, never wanted to run a company and never even wanted to be an engineer per se. When I was really young, I had an idea of what I wanted to build (and it's Twitter) !