What's Next For Our Crazy Economy — With Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jim McKelvey is the co-founder of Square, chair of the St. Louis Fed, and founder of Invisibly. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the Fed should still hike interest rates given the markets' slowdown and the conflict in Ukraine. Stay tuned for a discussion of how Jim tolerates risk, why he's not building his new startup on the blockchain (aka: Web3), and a preview of our SXSW featured session: The Future of The Data Economy: Putting People First, taking place March 11 in Austin.

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0:35.4	LinkedIn Presents Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation
0:58.9	of the tech world and beyond. And our guest today is Jim McKelvey. He's the co-founder of Square,
1:05.6	the founder of Invisibly, an independent director on the Federal Reserve of St. Louis.
1:12.5	I don't think there's a person better suited to talk about the way that our economy is moving today than Jim. He has insight
1:17.5	into everything going on with the fintech companies, but also sitting on the Fed. His perspective
1:24.6	is pretty invaluable, given that they're about to hike rates rates and might take some of the air out of the economy.
1:29.0	We'll talk about that in a moment.
1:30.6	And then, of course, he's the founder of a startup right now.
1:33.1	And this, and, you know, in this environment, it's going to be really interesting to speak with him about that.
1:36.9	And of course, Jim and I are going to be at South by Southwest on March 11th.
1:42.8	We're going to talk about the future of the data economy, putting people
1:46.1	first. It's at 2.30 p.m. Central time in the Hilton, Austin, downtown. If you're going to be in
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