Square

“The only difference is if you have a lot of equity in your company name, like I'll, Square is a good example. Like Square had a lot of equity. Google is a perfect example. A lot of equity in the company name. You often don't want to name your products somethin…”

“I joined Square. It was like a 140 people. We had no marketing function. We had a couple of marketing people. We had no product managers.”

“These days, like you don't necessarily need the.com square operated on square up for very, very long time. Lots of companies are operating on variants of a.com.”

“When I joined, Cash Hub was like, 11 or 12, and it wasn't much more than that for like a year.”

“We were given a pretty strict deadline that we needed to launch by and I pushed it out three times. And that's not because of this one animation, but it's because of a series of decisions where we said, this is what we believe we need to ship. And this matters…”

“And then a city planner is a PM that's really good at mature products, really good at driving efficiencies at scale. They have the city. They, everything that they do touches hundreds, thousands, millions of customers immediately. And so the type of PM that yo…”

“You know, I remember even in the early days, people used it to pay each other as a peer to peer money transfer system. And that's why we built Cash App and that was really successful on the back of that.”

“We had a lot of momentum in each of these silos, be it cash app, be it after pay. Be it square or even title or music streaming service. And no one was really talking to each other. No one was really aligned on technical strategy on what we even wanted to be f…”

“The team you build is the company you build. And that adage is the most important thing when you're creating a startup. People get distracted with the market, with customers, with the product, with technology, ultimately it's a team. If you have the right peop…”