Building a Business That's Never Been Done Before With Jim McKelvey: Cofounder, Square & Founder, Invisibly | #ThePlaybook 445

Aug 05, 2021, 09:00 AM

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder of Square, Founder of Invisibly, and author of “The Innovation Stack”, shares his thoughts on:

[1:45] - How entrepreneurs can leverage people’s tendency to overemphasize the past and underweight the future

[4:32] - Why explaining the problems with your solution to potential customers can lead to even higher sales

[6:58] - Why you should choose to innovate and never spend your life copying other people's solutions

[9:25] - The reason that ignorance can be just as useful for innovators as their own self-belief

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder of Square, Founder of Invisibly, and author of “The Innovation Stack”, shares his thoughts on:


  • [1:45] - How entrepreneurs can leverage people’s tendency to overemphasize the past and underweight the future
  • [4:32] - Why explaining the problems with your solution to potential customers can lead to even higher sales
  • [6:58] - Why you should choose to innovate and never spend your life copying other people's solutions
  • [9:25] - The reason that ignorance can be just as useful for innovators as their own self-belief


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