He used to follow his bus ride with a pleasant twenty-minute walk down Mission to the San Francisco Chronicle Building, where Square rented office space now his commute ends with a short ride on a Muni train to Square’s new headquarters, which have a panoramic view of the city.
If I took another bus, it’d be stopping.” The offices of Square, his mobile payment-processing service, just moved. It’s consistent, and it runs every few minutes. “If you buy it in bulk, it saves you a little bit of money,” he explained. A ride costs two dollars, but Dorsey has a monthly pass, so the actual price, he told me on a recent commute, is closer to a dollar seventy-five. It carries him nearly from one side of San Francisco to the other-down California Street almost to Market. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. “Constraint inspires creativity,” he says.
Dorsey’s tastes-minimalist design, severe diets-mirror the Twitter aesthetic.