Follow Jim: https://twitter.com/2000f About Jim: Jim is the co-founder of the mobile payment company Square alongside Jack Dorsey. Currently, he's dedicated to changing the digital advertising landscape as the founder of Invisibly. Jim's innovative mindset and contributions to the tech industry have been recognized thr

How do you find your new idea? What does it take to attract a team of true believers? And what does glass-blowing have to do with entrepreneurship? Hint: the key is timing. All of these questions are answered in my newest episode of From Start-Up to Grown-Up with Jim McKelvey, the Co-Founder of Block (previously known

Jim McKelvey was a glassblower when he created the idea for the payment platform Square (now Block, Inc.). He was furious that he couldn’t accept certain credit cards as an artist and contacted a former colleague and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to solve the problem. What took three weeks to build became a three-year

Jim McKelvey has now started close to a dozen different for-profit and nonprofit ventures, including Square. Now he’s tackling the problems we face on the internet every day, with the backing of Peter Theil as an investor. His venture has also attracted funding from other financiers like GGV Capital, Morgan Stanley, Va

639: In this interview, Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder of Square and Founder of Invisibly, discusses the beginnings of his career and how his early experiences inspired the genesis of Square. He shares a couple key strategies that he pursued to compete with large players like Amazon and how this led to the concept of his boo

In this episode we interview Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder of Square and Author of The Innovation Stack. We dive into how you can utilize innovation to build an unbeatable business one crazy idea at a time. Jim McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist, artist, and author of The Innovation Stack: Building