Company · Finance · Technology · founded 2009
Block
Technology and financial services company founded as Square by Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey and Tristan O'Tierney in 2009 and renamed Block in December 2021. Its products include Square, Cash App, Afterpay and Tidal.
Includes Tidal.
Of the 2 people here linked to Block, 1 is a founder and 2 are still there. 1 of them also appear at Instagram. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
2 people at Block
Founder Still there
Role
Co-founder and CEO (Square, renamed Block in 2021); board member, 2009–now
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. Block page lists Dorsey among the founders of Square in 2009; the Dorsey page lists him as current CEO and board member.
Technology · Software · Finance 3 / 1
Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter; co-founder and "Block Head" (CEO) of Block, Inc. (formerly Square)
middle-class · some · some college
Board Still there
Role
Member of the board of directors, 2021–now
Source
· medium confidence. Joined after Block, then Square, acquired a majority of Tidal in March 2021. Current status rests on the Wikipedia article, not a Block filing.
Music 10 / 8
Jay-Z
Artist and founder, Roc Nation (Jay-Z)
public housing · outsider · no college
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