Jack Dorsey & Sarah Friar ·Square, Inc. ·3 AUG 2016
How Square Turned a Payment Tool Into a Business Platform
The real moat isn't the hardware — it's every product a seller adopts after the first swipe.
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Jack Dorsey & Sarah Friar ·Square, Inc. ·3 AUG 2016
The real moat isn't the hardware — it's every product a seller adopts after the first swipe.
Square Investor Relations Team ·Square, Inc. ·1 NOV 2016
The strongest growth signal in this letter isn't revenue — it's that larger sellers are choosing Square on product merit, not discounts.
Jack Dorsey ·Block, Inc. ·2 NOV 2023
When the company is growing faster than the business, the fix is a hard ceiling, not a pep talk.