Billionaire Square (Block) Cofounder Jim McKelvey on The Synopsis Podcast
How Square beat Amazon; explaining his insightful "Innovation Stack" Framework
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This is a podcast announcement of an interview we just published on our podcast feed here: (Apple, Spotify).
We are thrilled to announce the release of our podcast with Square (Block) Cofounder Jim McKelvey.
Find it on Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you listen to your podcasts.
Episode Details.
In this exceptional interview, we talk to Cofounder of Square (Block) Jim McKelvey on competing against Amazon.
From his time at Square, he saw how they were able to outcompete Amazon and he wasn’t sure how that was possible given their superior resources, merchant network, and large base of talented employees.
After better understanding how that was possible, he wrote a book on his insights called “The Innovation Stack”.
In this interview, we touch on some of his key learnings, as well as talk about why it is so hard to copy some businesses.
Show Notes.
(0:00) — Amazon vs Square
(13:22) — Why Amazon Quit Against Square
(24:58) — Southwest
(37:33) — Copying a Company’s Innovation Stack
(40:53) — Advice to Build a Business
**Purchase Jim’s Book, The Innovation Stack, Here
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