Ed Cowan
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first heard Sep 2025
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So has there been any reflection or a key unlock of of your own learnings as an operator in that time period from ten people sitting in a room to now ten thousand people across an organization?
I think that's a perfect segue to kind of unpick a big theme to me that emerges over the last ten years of of the Cash App story and that is culture at the heart of innovation as a theme.
You know, we've heard the scrappiness of of how it all started and by the time, you know, twenty one rolled around there were eight thousand people.
In twenty two there were twelve thousand people.
This is an incredible scaling journey from a a culture point of view.
But like many things, they don't move in a straight line and and things slowed down, be it product or integrations and and business units developed.
And all of a sudden it was decided that the company needed a full reorg.
And you're far better to talk to this than I am, but broke down the silos.
far more cross functional
And it feels like from the outside in this has been a a huge rebirthing of the culture of block.
And so let's maybe talk to this cultural revolution because it's
The business has done something that very few can do and that is re engineer a startup DNA inside a scale business.
So maybe under that heading of culture at the heart of innovation, give a snapshot of the before, the after and and what it took to really re engineer the the culture at Block over the last couple of years.
We'll come to the the product velocity in a second, but just to unpick this one layer further, it it feels like all of a sudden the entrepreneurialism is back.
Fired up Nick Molner, a fantastic entrepreneur yourself, Jack's back on the tools.
It's amazing we've kind of been through this evolution of for many years it was founders letting people grow inside businesses and just to stand back and you know, to scale a business in
many ways, they had to scale the people around them.
This is a case study of almost the opposite, of letting great people be autonomous but still be in the weeds as a founder and that must be inspiring to be a part of.
approaching development at block.
Super interesting insight because from the outside in, you know, Jack Dorsey is a Enigma in in many ways, but those inside universally love him.
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