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“That’s the core ingredient for a CEO and a startup, being able to find those people and assess them when the rest of the world doesn’t know how to assess them yet.”
Banks says she was supposed to cast a spell on Dorsey’s behalf.
Square wants new payments customers, even if it means they don’t use Square’s software to run their business.
More amazing players take to our stage in May to talk tech, media and much more.
It was an okay first earnings report for Jack Dorsey’s other company.
Profit margins and differentiation are two reasons why.
Woof.
Will cryptocurrency become mainstream?
“The only thing better would be if they delivered the Square Readers by drone.”
Silicon Valley denizens prefer to diss each other in hush-hush sotto voce. Not Chamath!
A lot has happened, but Wall Street doesn’t seem to like much of it.
Expect more of the same in 2016.
One big challenge will be to continue to diversify without spreading itself too thin.
He sleeps six hours and he likes to meditate. A lot.
The new rules of the hunt for “unicorns” are creating a small class of “haves” and a much larger class of “have-nots.”
It’s sure cold in the shade.
Square and the Match Group go public, R.I.P. Rdio and more Gawker restructuring.
A hint at a Square Wallet resurrection?
A sign of investor demand, but the company leaves money on the table.
Not the best debut.
When the payments company goes public on Thursday, it will bring with it a fast-growing top line accompanied by a bottom line steeped in red.
It’s getting hot in here.
Also, Square took one for the team with its IPO pricing.
Square announced plans on Friday morning to price its IPO at $11 to $13 share. Its last private funding valued the company’s shares at more than $15.
ShopKeep has recently added a COO and CFO with public company experience.
The big banker steps in for the scrappy Silicon Valley startup.
The Yahoo talent exodus accelerates.
The brain drain at Yahoo continues for CEO Marissa Mayer.
Also, the video battle between Facebook and YouTube.
It has been a busy couple of weeks for the San Francisco social communications company.
It’s the profit margins, stupid.
From one audacious exec to another.
With Square’s IPO on the way, here are three key questions investors are probably asking.
The conference call with Twitter’s CEO, as it happens.
As reported by Recode on Wednesday.
How he went from CEO reject to CEO savior.
Cover’s fate underscores how hard it is to build sustainable payment-processing businesses without enormous transaction volume.
Assuming this isn’t a bluff, Twitter’s board of directors may find itself with quite the dilemma.
It’s the first formal partnership between the two companies, which are currently sharing a CEO.