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Hi everybody. I'm Nicola Tangan, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovan Wealth Fund. And today it's an honor to welcome Jack Dorsey, one of the most visionary entrepreneurs in the world. Jack is the co-founder and CEO of Block and also the co-founder and former

CEO of Twitter. So Jack, you really put the stamp on the world. Welcome. Thank you so much.

Thank you. If we go back and kick off with Twitter, who is now, of course, renamed X,

where did the idea come from? Well, it was a long time in the making.

When I was kid, I was always fascinated by how cities worked, just how these things that were so large to me at the time actually functioned.

And I got into maps.

And that led me to programming because my dad brought home a computer one time

and I wanted to draw a map on the screen

so that I could start playing with it.

And I, you know, I taught myself how to do that, I figured it out.

And little by little, I worked my way to a field called

dispatch, so dispatching taxi cabs and ambulances and police cars. And it was a way to put information

on the map, information about the city.

And I eventually ended up working at the largest firm in New York.

And I had this very rich map of everything happening in New York City.

But it was missing one thing which were the people and what they were doing, where they were.

And that's really the question that started Twitter

was if I could see and visualize what the people were doing

and what they were thinking or where they were going,

it would help me understand the city a little bit more.

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