jack

jack

Follow

no state is the best state

Posts

Excited to launch Gemma 4: the best open models in the world for their respective sizes. Available in 4 sizes that can be fine-tuned for your specific task: 31B dense for great raw performance, 26B MoE for low latency, and effective 2B & 4B for edge device use - happy building!

Automatically enabled bitcoin payments are rolling out to eligible U.S. Square sellers. Start accepting bitcoin that instantly converts to cash at checkout, with no additional setup. → 0% processing fees through 2026 → Near-instant settlement → No need to hold bitcoin Learn more: squ.re/sqbtc

is the future value of "open source" code anymore? i believe it's shifting to data, provenance, protocols, evals, and weights. in that order.

yes we over-hired during covid because i incorrectly built 2 separate company structures (square & cash app) rather than 1, which we corrected mid 2024. but this misses all the complexity we took on through lending, banking, and BNPL. and that we’re now targeting $2M+ gross profit per person, 4x our pre-covid efficiency, which stayed flat at ~$500k from 2019 until 2024. we have and do run an efficient company... better than most.

In 3 years from December 2019 to December 2022, Block $XYZ more than tripled its headcount from 3,900 to 12,500. Unwinding less than half an insane COVID overhiring binge has much more to do with Jack Dorsey's managerial incompetence than whether AI is going to take your job. x.com/JeremyKissel/s…

From the workshop of @DamjanStankovic Didn’t even make the cut for something new we’re building. But too fun not to share. Such a fun time to be a designer 💚

We shipped the Neighborhood extension to all @goose_oss developers. You can now agentically order breakfast, lunch and dinner. Try it out, and build on top of it! block.github.io/goose/extensio...…

reminder: Cash App Taxes is completely free. 100% free.

I feel like an open source version of TurboTax should be created. Might be possible bc of AI now. Been thinking about this quite a bit.

In 2026 we are making big changes on @CashApp Starting today, lower fees across the board. No fees on large buys >$2k. Still 0 fee, 0 spread when you stack, get paid, or round up. Higher limits. Free bitcoin spending via Lightning. To ensure bitcoin becomes every day money. twitter.com/milessuter/status/...

we've lent out over $200 billion around the world, and expanding quickly.

To-date Block has provided access to more than $200 billion in credit to customers across its global lending portfolio. Our approach to credit across the ecosystem leverages near real-time behavioral data that more accurately reflects consumers' actual financial health and

Loading..