Jack Dorsey opposed Square's iconic hardware, preferring a camera scanner
Jim McKelvey · Billionaire Co-Founder of Square Joins Latka · Apr 5, 2021 · at 17:23
Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square, recounts the first product disagreement with Jack Dorsey on whether to build physical card readers or use mobile phone cameras.
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“I said, we need to build a piece of hardware, and Jack thought I was crazy because he said, we don't want to build hardware. Hardware is a terrible business, and it'll slow us down, and we can just use the camera on the phone”
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