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every year anyone Michael Cieri 7Eric Sager 2Sheila Joglekar Vashee 1Kevin Busque 1Imad Akhund 1Brett Berson 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Block comes up
Why great leaders make themselves obsolete | Eric Sager (COO, Plaid)
- ▶ 1:37 Eric Sager I think I learned a lot there from my days at Square, where that's kind of how Sarah and Jack talked about the IPL.
- ▶ 1:05:37 Eric Sager Like, I think, uh, Goku, who I worked with at Square, I think he has, he said this somewhere like this, like, perpetual dissatisfaction.
Playing it safe with marketing is the riskiest thing you can do | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (Figma CMO)
- ▶ 53:43 Sheila Joglekar Vashee Chief Business Officer at Square and then went to Pinterest, and I was in a conversation with Francoise and talking to her about my job and getting her advice and getting feedback, and I was like, you know, here, I'm weighing these…
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 5:54 Imad Akhund We have a bunch of people from Stripe, and Block, and Google, or whatever, so people bring their ideas, and the good ideas tend to be, like, you know, memes that percolate, and that's good.
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 37:37 Kevin Busque So they didn't know how bad it was at an ADP or square, et cetera.
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 0:34 Brett Berson I'm Brett Burson, a partner at First Round, and we're a venture capital firm that helps startups like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square tackle company building firsts.
Lessons from Gusto & Square on Finding Your Product Wedge | Michael Cieri
- ▶ 8:54 Michael Cieri To be honest, it was one of the most exciting and fun times of my career, and we were going through that because we were, you know, Square had done extraordinarily well down market. 7 times in the scene