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Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 11:44 Travis Kalanick Right next to our office, which was in the same building at the time as Twitter, sorry, same building as Square, right?
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 1:04 David Haber Owen Jennings is the business lead at Block where he oversees product, operations, and customer support across Square, Cash App, and Afterpay. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 Owen Jennings So about 18 months ago, we functionalized the company, just meaning that all of engineering rolls up to our head of engineering, all of design to our head of design, all of product to me. 6 times in the scene
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 5:21 unnamed speaker Um, you know, so many of these fintech companies decided, I forget the exact timing, but to go kind of full stack, you know, so you saw, you know, uh, fintech companies like SoFi, you know, buy banks, you know, Lending Club, uh, I think…
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 45:55 Keith Rabois At PayPal, we had of the 254 employees we had in Mountain View when we went public to maybe three had any expertise in financial services at Square.
Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee
- ▶ 25:28 Erik Torenberg Beast launch like a square competitor?
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 13:17 David George So two of the ones that are top of mind for me are Block, which very much changed their, you know, operating targets, their segment-level targets, including SBC, all that stuff. 2 times in the scene
Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’
- ▶ 9:58 Jeff Sloan It's kind of table stakes, uh, and dogma in our business, but I could tell you, I spent years telling people why well before toast, you know, came public well before adding in Stripe, uh, swear, et cetera, we're really on the scenes and…
Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
- ▶ 28:22 Jason Gardner Um, and then even, you know, uh, Square at the time now a block 3 times in the scene
Data Security and the Rise of Crypto
- ▶ 1:20 Diogo Mónica And I joined Docker after four years at a company called Square. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41 Diogo Mónica Jack was the founder and CEO of Square.
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 0:40 Chris Dixon Maybe if you could start with a little bit of your backgrounds, how you got into security, your time at Square, and then how that led to Anchorage.
- ▶ 1:01 Diogo Mónica Uh, we met because we joined a company called Square the same week. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:51 Nathan McCauley So, after a, a number of years at Square, uh, we were, um, given the opportunity to kind of, uh, grow the security team at Docker, kind of, from its, its initiation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:54 Nathan McCauley If you look at, look at Square and the simplicity that they kind of,
How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
- ▶ 18:19 Scott Cooper You know, a great example of this was, um, this is public information, but when Square went public, they went public at eight dollars a share. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product
- ▶ 4:54 Gokul Rajaram Facebook, Google, Square, a bunch of companies have gone to this model because, in my opinion, it doesn't make sense to have a person who's literally managing three different product units that, that don't really have cohesion.
- ▶ 12:54 Gokul Rajaram I, I onboarded this way at Square where, ah, you essentially send a survey or some way to collect questions from, from the team, or at least the direct reports of the person before they start, because everyone when they hear there's a new…
- ▶ 25:22 Gokul Rajaram I spent essentially five hours before I even agreed to interview at Square with our CEO, just getting to know him and understanding what his vision is for the company, what he cares about, what he doesn't, what his philosophy is, how he…
a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- ▶ 20:42 Alex Rampell And if you actually look at some of the financial results of somebody like Stripe or Square, they have this great tailwind
a16z Podcast | On Recent IPOs and Comparing Private vs. Public Valuations
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi I'm Sonal, and today we have three guests who are actually really two guests at a time because we're sort of doing a hallway conversation style podcast that was actually some of the original spirit behind some of the original podcasts, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:12 unnamed speaker That's a great point, and probably the reason why it's such an interesting debate for this IPO, because there is no formula, and there was a wide range of understanding and a wide range of beliefs among investors on even how Square should… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 Scott Cooper So the private investment thesis I would have expected, you know, for most of the private investors who came into Square was much more the software platform business, kind of this, this, you know, much broader and bigger vision, and that's… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 unnamed speaker Um, and so we saw with Square, it closed 45% up 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Scott Cooper Public still is the new public, which means, uh, you know, going public is actually this process that Square went through yesterday, which is becoming, you know, creating a liquid market for your stock, uh, taking on, on, you know, all the…
- ▶ 21:25 Scott Cooper So what happens is, right, if you think about Square, you know, you know, a set of investors came into Square at the last private round, I forget exactly when that was, and they valued it at roughly six billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:30 unnamed speaker I think it really, again, depends on the name, and I think that's why everyone is very fascinated by the Square IPO, because in this instance, there was a broad variation in viewpoints on what the business is going to look like in 12… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:55 unnamed speaker But because there was no EBITDA in this case, folks had to take a view on what, what are the EBITDA multiples in a fully mature business for Square.
- ▶ 36:38 Steve McDermott My view of this, particularly in the context of Square, is it's a financing event. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 5:47 Alex Rampell I, I had a lot of respect when Square came out.