$OBJKT
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. @jackiereses says when @jack decided to build a crypto product, he sat in the Square office for 3 days without leaving and helped code the trading platform himself: "He took three engineers, sat at the corner of the 6th floor at 1455 Market and didn't leave the office for 3 [Spoken audio]: I love this story because it's all Jack and the amazing part about Square and its crypto origins is that like everything about it was Jack's personality. So Jack Dorsey just decided that he wanted to have a crypto product. He wasn't waiting for anyone. He wasn't going to deal with anyone's, you know, objections. He was just going to go get the job done. He took three engineers and he sat at the corner of the sixth floor at 1455 market and didn't leave the office for three days. And so everyone sat there, he included, and they coded up the crypto trading platform. And so on Friday night, when they finally were able to trade, it was like the moment that they all left the office. and I, you know, my space for Square Capital was right next to where they were sitting. I love the group of people who were doing it. It was a very small group that I happened to be close with. I was more than happy to light up the space and keep smiles on their faces. And so I just thought it was the coolest thing that in January of 2017, they were gonna launch this crypto product. And then like the chaos starts, which is your public company and you want to launch a Bitcoin product, but there weren't really public companies that had Bitcoin. And so you have like accounting implications, which is a really weird thing. You have SEC implications. So you have to take this idea to the SEC, but no one knows how to account for it. And so that is wackadoodle, right? You're trying to go then explain what kind of accounting it should be to your accounting firm. And so we almost got held up that first quarterly earnings period because we couldn't get accountants in the SEC to agree that we were accounting it correctly and then actually get it in the numbers in order to launch the product. And so, and we weren't gonna wait another quarter to make that happen. We were just anxious to release the product. And so, I think everything about that experience just screams Jack Dorsey and his personality on steroids because of the energy and the creativity and the bombastic nature of the way he wanted to go get this product into the world.
