great interview with co-founder of Square and author or a new interesting book
+ references on some other books about innovation
Hanselminutes Technology Podcast - Fresh Air and Fresh Perspectives for Developers - Outside In: The Innovation Stack with Jim McKelvey
transcript: Podcast transcripts, sponsors, and audience data - Podscribe
the book:
"In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he couldn't accept American Express cards. Frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting credit card payments, McKelvey joined his friend Jack Dorsey (the cofounder of Twitter) to launch Square, a startup that would enable small merchants to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones. With no expertise or experience in the world of payments, they approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective, questioning the industry's assumptions, experimenting and innovating their way through early challenges, and achieving widespread adoption from merchants small and large..."summaries:
more interviews
quote: "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
William Gibson - Wikiquote
William Gibson - Wikiquote
related books:
another good article with the same title, while unrelated, from another well known entrepreneur:
