Recode Decode: Square CFO Sarah Friar and Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In these highlights from our September 2018 Code Commerce event, Recode's Jason Del Rey talks with two great guests: (00:57) First, he speaks to Square CFO Sarah Friar; (35:02) then, Jason interviews Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta. You can catch up on Code Commerce and watch all the interviews from the event for free on Recode's YouTube page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:25.3	You may know me as someone who buys everything on my phone, albeit with Jim Bankov's credit
0:29.0	card, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the
0:32.6	Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:34.4	Today we're going to play two interviews from Code Commerce, a live event Recode put
0:37.8	on in New York City.
0:38.8	It was a great event and if you want to binge watch all the interviews right now, you
0:42.1	can do that for free on Recode's YouTube page.
0:44.7	Later in the show you'll hear my colleague Jason Del Rey interviewing Instacart CEO,
0:48.5	a poor Vameda, but first here's one of our favorites from this year's events.
0:52.2	Jason talking to Square, CFO, Sarah Freyer.
0:55.3	Enjoy.
0:57.3	So I don't know if you caught John's talk yesterday, but he said, I think what gets people
1:03.8	at Square out of bed in the morning are bakeries and coffee shops.
1:08.7	So I told him I would ask you that first question, but I think the real question is, it seems
1:13.1	like this is becoming a crowded space reinventing payments in the physical world.
1:19.5	How do you think, is there room for a stripe and a square and name the other five, six,
1:26.1	ten competitors?
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