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Jack Dorsey

Co-Founder, Block Head & Chairman, Block

Search every verified Jack Dorsey interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block, discussed the company's open-source AI tools and their role in the broader technology landscape during a September 2026 fireside chat at Freedom Tech DC. He stated that Block has released internal tools such as Goose and Buzz to the public, citing a principle of giving back to the developer community that he said shaped his career. Dorsey also expressed views on AI competition, saying he was initially concerned when OpenAI appeared to be the sole frontier player, but that the emergence of other labs and open-source efforts eased that concern. He argued against slowing AI development, suggesting instead that government could fund compute resources to open models to more researchers. In other appearances, Dorsey reflected on Square's early challenges, recounting that Visa initially rejected the company's business model and that the firm faced internal skepticism during major pivots. On Block's Q2 2026 earnings call and an afters call, he discussed the company's financial performance, the Cash App ecosystem, and the potential of AI tools like Buzz for small businesses. He also addressed Proto, the company's Bitcoin mining venture, stating that mining is critical to securing the Bitcoin network, and mentioned plans for BitKey, a self-custody product, emphasizing the importance of intuitive design.

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“I was pretty concerned when it seemed that it was only OpenAI that was on the frontier of this technology. When Anthropic came out and pushed an interface that made sense to developers which was Claude Code, it eased a bunch of that concern for me because now there are two players and then as more and more people saw what was possible and the opportunity, more labs sprang up, a number in China activated as well, and ”

“Our push is to really question what a company is. A lot of companies out of Silicon Valley and a lot of technology companies have borrowed a playbook that hasn't dramatically changed that much over probably three or four decades. The playbook we used to build our company was from Google. Google borrowed it from Silicon Graphics. Silicon Graphics borrowed it from HP. HP probably borrowed it from General Electric. And ”

“Visa told us that this is never going to work and actually we weren't allowed to use their network and that was pretty scary because that was our whole business model. And we one significant dependency on that one person saying yes and they said no for nine months until we could prove it out. Then we had this board of all these like you know old head financial folks from Goldman Sachs and everywhere else in the world”

“Our vision wasn't actually that large when we started. And I think for most entrepreneurs, it's just so hard even beginning that you have to figure out exactly what Randy said, you have to figure out what's next by actually doing the work. So, I remember the one moment, the crystallizing moment for us as we were building this credit card reader. And it felt magical because you could plug it into your phone and it was”

“I think he was 100% right on almost every dimension. We see this in Square's business. He identified truck drivers. I'm from Missouri. And he certainly pointed to the concern and the issue that people from where I'm from feel every single day that is often invisible and not talked about enough. The next big one is cashiers. This is where it pertains to Square's business. We are seeing more and more of the point of sa”

“I believe that the currency we use is a huge part of the answer. And I believe that the internet deserves and requires a native currency. And that's why I'm such a huge believer in Bitcoin because it just... Our biggest problem as a company right now is we cannot act like an internet company. Open a new market, we have to have a partnership with a local bank. We have to pay attention to different regulatory onboardin”

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