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Silicon Valley by The Investor's Podcast Network is hosted by Shawn Flynn. It is an in-depth look into the workings of companies based in Silicon Valley. It delves into up-and-coming startups, established giants and the views of people who are making a mark in the technology scene in Silicon Valley.
SV037: The Innovation Stack with Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey
Silicon Valley - The Investor's Podcast Network
53 minutes
5 years ago
SV037: The Innovation Stack with Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey
On today’s episode, we sit down with Jim McKelvey. Jim is the co-founder of Square, a financial services, merchant services aggregator, and mobile payment company. In 2009, Jim designed a card reader which in 2011 was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art. Jim then teamed with other St. Louis-based serial entrepreneurs to help found Cultivation Capital which was ranked the 7th most active venture capital firm founded since 2009, and the 3rd most active lead investor and since 2017, McKelvey has been appointed as an Independent Director of the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why you can’t be an expert as an entrepreneur
About Jim’s new book “The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time”
The incredible story of how he first met Jack Dorsey (cofounder of Twitter) and how they built Square together
The story of the man that if he had wanted could have been the richest man ever to have lived
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Silicon Valley - The Investor's Podcast Network
Silicon Valley by The Investor's Podcast Network is hosted by Shawn Flynn. It is an in-depth look into the workings of companies based in Silicon Valley. It delves into up-and-coming startups, established giants and the views of people who are making a mark in the technology scene in Silicon Valley.
