Square Reader, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Square Reader comes up on Top Founders, How I Built This, Lenny's Podcast, the a16z Podcast

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▶ 49:55 Jim McKelvey Turns out it was a good payment name, and another company had a payment system called Squirrel, so we pivoted to Square, but I designed the Square Reader to be the shape of an acorn. 5 times in the scene
▶ 1:05:34 Jim McKelvey And it failed so badly that Amazon gave us all their soon-to-be former customers and mailed them a Square reader and said, we're out, go to Square.

▶ 0:53 Lenny Rachitsky Then she went on to Square, where she was one of the first marketers and helped launch and scale the growth of Square Reader.
▶ 5:06 Arielle Jackson And anyway, I was running like event marketing at the time and giving away a bunch of those readers that you stick into a phone for free and having a lot of like, you know, small merchants.
▶ 8:34 Arielle Jackson And then I got a square reader and I sold at a craft fair that year. 2 times in the scene

▶ 18:41 Jim McKelvey So it turns out that the square card reader, which I was, 4 times in the scene
▶ 34:22 Nathan Latka Well, they didn't just say we're out, didn't they start, I mean, they mailed a bunch of these square readers out, right, with big smiley faces. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:29 Diogo Mónica And in fact, my first project was the little encrypted credit card reader that I'm sure all of you have used to at least pay for coffee.

▶ 31:32 Steven Sinofsky You're going to go and build that on a mobile platform that's mobile first, that has all of the capabilities, all, you know, it's sort of like there's no square reader for a PC, you know, and so you, if you want to do innovative payments…

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