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Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business. Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company Feb 23, 2026 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 4:57 Guy Raz But today, Square's parent company, Block, is a behemoth with gross profits of over ten billion dollars last year.
  • ▶ 41:54 Jim McKelvey They weren't negatively impacted by anything that Square was going to do. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:36 Guy Raz And I read that you wanted it to be a square, you called it square, but you wanted it to be very small. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:52 Guy Raz Square launches, and within a year, it has 50,000 customers in a pilot program. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:18 Guy Raz Um, all right, so you are on the board, and Square is really growing, and then, 2014, Amazon decides to get into this game. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:09 Guy Raz Jim, I know that there have been a bunch of different projects that you, you've worked on after you formally left day-to-day with Square. 2 times in the scene

93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:06 Guy Raz That's how Visa and MasterCard and Square and Amex make money.

BARK: Matt Meeker Nov 4, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 24:51 Matt Meeker So again, this is an image on my phone with now a Square account attached to it. 3 times in the scene

Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne Apr 4, 2024 · 1 mention

Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack Oct 16, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:27 Guy Raz Check out the one about Block, the company that created the platforms people love today, like Square and Cash App. 2 times in the scene

Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018) Mar 9, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:30 Guy Raz Why didn't like PayPal or these other transaction, um, companies, Square and stuff say, we're just gonna do what they do.

DoorDash: Tony Xu Nov 12, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:22 Tony Xu We'd call on the way, and we would place the order, pick it up on behalf of the customer, show up at the customer, and use, so I, I used to work at Square as well, so I would take a Square card reader and use that. 3 times in the scene

Stripe: Patrick and John Collison May 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:37 Guy Raz Why didn't like PayPal or these other transaction, um, companies, Square and stuff say, we're just gonna do what they do.
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