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Alyssa Henry

Former CEO, Square · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alyssa Henry served as the CEO of Square at Block, Inc., leading product development, operations, and infrastructure for merchant financial services. Previously, she was Vice President of Amazon Web Services Storage Services overseeing systems including Amazon S3, following a twelve-year engineering leadership tenure at Microsoft.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 1 assertion · 2 opinions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alyssa argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Henry: Square Used GPT-2 in Square Messages Product
“Even kind of prior to this kind of latest big shift in the AI landscape, you know, we were using GPT two as part of us, the square messages product being you know, a virtual assistant to help customers, you know, answer responses to customer inquiries and vari…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 5:19 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Alyssa Henry on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Alyssa Henry said on No Priors that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Henry: Cloud Providers Hold Inherent Advantage Monetizing Open Source Software
“One of the things with the cloud providers too, is because you have sort of default customer demand, you launch one of these services using the open source. In many cases, you'll, you'll have existing customers that want to use it. And so then you're immediate…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 27:27 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Opinion
Henry: Generative AI completes unserved work rather than just replacing jobs
“And it's not just as people like to talk about, oh, well, I was going to take away jobs. It's like, Yeah, well, maybe, but like, but a lot of it is actually work that's not getting done that could be, that someone could get done, right? You know, it's like sen…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 14:34 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Insight
Henry: Generative AI Unlocks Massive Small-Business Whitespace
“What's exciting about all this technology, you know, that's one example, but there's so many of these kind of different things where just the ease of use and the accessibility opens up what previously was effectively just massive white space, right? It was cus…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 6:56 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Henry: Commerce Software Is Entering a Bundling and Consolidation Phase
“Right now, a lot of the stuff is unbundled, and I think we're going to go into a bundling phase because it addresses a number of things. It addresses integration and it also, you can typically offer a bundle you know, for less than the sum of the individual pa…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 18:10 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Opinion
Henry: AI workloads expand cloud compute rather than replace existing workloads
“It's not replacing existing workloads. It's adding new workloads.”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 19:43 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Henry: Nvidia will lose AI chip monopoly as a number two emerges
“I obviously NVIDIA is selling the most GPUs. That's fun. Yeah. That's driving, you know, a lot of AI, but I think there's still room. I don't think it's going to be a monopoly on the area. And you know, I do think there will be a clear number two. And right no…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 29:20 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Assertion Supported
Henry: Square Used GPT-2 in Square Messages Product
“Even kind of prior to this kind of latest big shift in the AI landscape, you know, we were using GPT two as part of us, the square messages product being you know, a virtual assistant to help customers, you know, answer responses to customer inquiries and vari…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 5:19 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Disclosure
Henry: Square's Photo Studio initially operated as a physical Brooklyn studio
“Squared launched a product a couple years ago called Photo Studio because we heard from businesses that they wanted to sail the line, but they didn't have product photos, right? And so the first iteration of it is we actually had a photo, like a physical photo…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 10:17 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Disclosure
Henry: Square acquired Khosla-backed ML startup around 2018 for AI tools
“Vinod Khosla was on our board for years and he had a portfolio company that was being courted by another company to acquire them. And Vinod called me up and said, Alyssa, you should go talk to these guys. And see if maybe, like, Square might be, ah, an interes…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 15:28 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry
Insight
Henry: Enterprises hit cloud spend commits buying third-party partner products
“If you look at the marketplaces on the cloud providers, so like they have partnerships with all these people where, you know, to get down your Azure AWS bill, you say, I'm going to spend this many millions of dollars on your cloud. Some of it's going to be, I'…”
Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 24:40 No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
No Priors Ep. 44 | With Former Square CEO Alyssa Henry Dec 14, 2023 23m

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Alyssa Henry was played rather than Alyssa taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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No Priors Ep. 46 | Best of 2023 with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Jan 11, 2024 1m clip played
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