#43: Launch Your Productivity with Jim McKelvey
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The co-founder of the massive point of sale company, Square, joins Jayson Waller to talk about how staying modest and conservative has given him an edge in the world today, and how Jayson and Jim plan to pass that down to their kids.
How much street cred does Jim McKelvey have? Listen to today’s episode to find out why Jim was driving a car with bullet holes in it, and who he likes better, Biggie or Tupac.
Tune in to learn more about what Launch Code is and how it’s helping programmers find jobs in the field with not a lot of experience. Find out why it’s better to have motivation and passion rather than experience in the field.
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Jim’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckelveyjim/
Jim’s Website: https://www.jimmckelvey.com/
Jim’s Book: https://www.jimmckelvey.com/books/
Timestamps:
1:55 - Different Set of Rules
4:26 - Serial Entrepreneur
5:56 - Learning to Have Appreciation
10:17 - Modest Living
11:52 - Teaching the Next Generation
16:22 - Innovation Stack
22:34 - Launch Code
27:26 - Paired Programming
30:55 - Motivation Beats Experience
35:19 - Street Cred
37:46 - Jim McKelvey’s Plugs
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
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| 0:15.1 | Damn, bam, true underdog. |
| 0:18.3 | Damn, they unleash the power with him. |
| 0:21.4 | Damn. |
| 0:23.7 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog. |
| 0:30.1 | We have got a great episode for you today. |
| 0:32.1 | I've got Jim McKelvey here with us. |
| 0:34.8 | He is the co-founder of Square, financialment Company, which is co-founded and led by |
| 0:39.4 | CEO Jack Dorsey, founder of Invisibly, which powers micro-payments for content creators, |
| 0:45.5 | founder of LaunchCode, a non-profit organization that trains people in work in technology. |
| 0:50.6 | How are you doing, Jim? Just doing great. Good to talk to you, Jason. |
| 0:53.9 | Good, good. Where are you located at right now? Where are you in? St. Louis, Missouri, hometown. Oh, we have an office in St. Louis. How's the weather there? It's gorgeous today. Sunny and 80. Beautiful. I'm in Michigan. It's starting to turn cold and gray, but we're not there yet. I love the summer's here. |
| 1:11.0 | So, been here a couple years. I'm super excited for you to share your story with our listeners and viewers. |
| 1:17.4 | We've talked to a lot of entrepreneurs, but it seems like you are the entrepreneur. You know, |
| 1:22.9 | you've wrote a book, you've opened up six companies. Let's talk about, let's talk about that. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, so lack of focus is a theme with me. |
| 1:35.0 | And I am not really good at running companies, so I end up starting them and then I have to get out of the way. So what I discovered years ago was that if I have an idea and get it going, |
| 1:41.6 | I have to hand that idea over to other people who are better at executing. |
| 1:45.0 | It turns out that the only thing that I'm actually good at is doing stuff that hasn't been done. |
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