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Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
- ▶ 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.