Jim McKelvey: Co-Founder of Square & Author of "The Innovation Stack" | SALT Talks #42
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 Published On Aug 25, 2020

Welcome to another episode of SALT Talks with host Anthony Scaramucci, and guest Jim McKelvey, the Co-Founder of Square and Author of The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time. Jim had the idea to start Square when he couldn’t take a customer’s credit card at his glassblowing studio. Square would go on to survive a major challenge from Amazon due to its Innovation Stack.

“If you put yourself in a situation where the only solution is to create something new, then you need to understand that the process of innovation is different.” An Innovation Stack is a series of interlocking inventions. While individual elements cannot be viewed individually, the entire Stack fails if one block is missing. We are surrounded by hundreds of examples, but we don’t consider them innovative because they serve as the basis for entire industries.

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