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David Rosenthal: belief

16 Aug 2017 Acquired The Square IPO

“I need to. But I think at one point they shut off his email account. So he’s all in on Square at this point.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
16 Aug 2017
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
The Square IPO

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…Yup. And there’s so many great things that fall out of it. Like your engineering, let’s say you’re doing Agile, like your user stories. Like you have your first user story. You have your very first when you’re describing your market, it’s very easy for an investor or a partner or a customer to conjure up to Jim the glass blower in their head. Yup. Well, speaking of stories, we’ve got a couple more before we’re done with history and facts here, and they’re pretty good. So 2009, one way or another the company is off and running. Jack is the CEO. He is either chairman or executive chairman at Twitter but he’s basically like barred from the company. There’s a whole book, the Hatching Twitter all about this which I actually haven’t read. I need to. But I think at one point they shut off his email account. So he’s all in on Square at this point. And Jim is the cofounder and he’s the head of hardware. So they get to work, they have a name. They have a really great name. They have an iconic design for the card reader that's going to plug into phones, iPhones and Androids. What’s that name that they have?…

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