Square's Better.com name Block is Butter-y smooth
Equity
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4.2 • 372 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. |
| 0:16.0 | My name is Alex, this is our Friday show and I'm here of course with the regular Friday crew including Natasha Moscarinus. |
| 0:22.0 | Natasha, hello. |
| 0:23.6 | How are you doing? |
| 0:24.6 | It's December, I'm doing great. |
| 0:25.8 | I take it, you're a holiday type person. |
| 0:27.7 | I have a big holiday type person except I hate peppermint mochas, |
| 0:30.7 | so I just want to go on the record. |
| 0:32.4 | There, you know, you don't have to drink those. |
| 0:35.0 | They still make Americano's year round. |
| 0:37.0 | Marion, I know you're an espresso fan, please tell me why peppermint should not be in caffeinated drinks. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, I actually think it's okay. |
| 0:44.0 | As long as it's not too strong. |
| 0:46.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:47.0 | You're off the show. |
| 0:48.0 | That's the end of that. |
| 0:50.0 | Uh, no, we kid. |
| 0:52.0 | We actually have a lot to get through today guys. I thought it was going to be one of those weeks when not much happened, but instead everything happened this week. So we're going to talk about square changing its name. We have three of the coolest funding rounds we've talked about all year. We have about fun that we need to talk about. So it's going to be busy, but Natasha, the news that we added to the very top of our dock is all about square, or really the artist formerly known as. |
| 1:18.9 | So square, like everyone except us, has chosen to rebrand. |
| 1:23.7 | They are rebranding to block and to quote the wonderful Chris Gates, |
| 1:27.2 | our producer, he was like, like block like blockchain, |
| 1:29.8 | definitely block like blockchain. |
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