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Amrita Ahuja

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, Block

Search every verified Amrita Ahuja interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amrita Ahuja, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer at Block, appeared in two recent public engagements discussing the company's financial performance and operational strategy. In an August 6, 2026 interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street," she addressed Block's second-quarter earnings beat and raised full-year guidance, noting that the company had taken "a bold action in February" involving AI-driven layoffs of roughly 40% of its staff. Ahuja stated that the company is "now properly staffed" and emphasized a focus on "putting AI at the center of all of our workflows," citing improvements in efficiency, such as delivering 130 features to Square customers in the first half of the year, three times more than the prior year. She also described Block as a "rule of 52 company" in the first half of 2026, exceeding a prior goal to be a "rule of 40 company" by that year, and declined to confirm or deny reports that Block is part of a bid for PayPal, saying it is "reasonable to assume that everybody in the industry is taking a look" at such an asset. In an August 14, 2026 episode of the company's "On The Block" podcast, Ahuja discussed Block's investment philosophy and the integration of Afterpay into Cash App. She highlighted successes in scaling Cash App Pay and delivering buy now, pay later functionality to new customers, noting that the Afterpay team's enterprise experience contributed to these efforts. She also referenced a company metric of gross profit per employee, stating it had increased from roughly $500,000 per year before the pandemic to about $1 million last year, with a target of approximately $2 million this year based on current guidance, attributing this to "greater focus, greater ownership and accountability, greater lines, strengthened communication, greater efficiency and all the power of AI."

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“We plan to continue to repurchase shares and will act more aggressively when we believe shares trade at a deep discount to intrinsic value like we think they do today. That's why today we announced we've expanded our share repurchase authorization by an additional $5 billion.”

“We expect to grow adjusted operating income by 31% with adjusted EPS growth of 36% to reach $2.7 billion of adjusted operating income and $3.20 of adjusted EPS.”

“We're one of only 24 companies in the S&P 500 operating at 10 billion or greater gross profit scale, growing gross profit 15% annually, and delivering 20% or more in adjusted operating income in margins.”

“Today, 26 revenue lines each generate more than $100 million in annual gross profit, more than double what we had three years ago in 2022.”

“Over the last five years, we've achieved a 30% compound annual growth rate. Since 2020, we've nearly quadrupled our gross profit. And since our last investor day in 2022, we've nearly doubled in scale.”

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