Jim McKelvey

Co-Founder, with Jack Dorsey, of Square

Jim McKelvey is an entrepreneur, inventor and artist widely known, together with Jack Dorsey as the co-founder of Square, a new mobile payment platform. The revolutionary service enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere. Square has now more than 600 employees and is now valued at $6 billion.

Jim McKelvey

Co-Founder, with Jack Dorsey, of Square

Jim McKelvey is an entrepreneur, inventor and artist widely known, together with Jack Dorsey as the co-founder of Square, a new mobile payment platform. The revolutionary service enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere. Square has now more than 600 employees and is now valued at $6 billion.

Biography

His latest venture is LaunchCode, which he founded to remedy a problem he saw in a lack of IT talent growth, bringing together employers with potential employees through a radically different business model. He has also founded SixThirty, a financial services tech start up accelerator and Mira, a digital publishing company.

Jim serves as his own patron of the arts, using proceeds from his successful commercial enterprises to fund his passion – glassblowing. For 20 years, he has worked to capture the magic of glass in his art. As Chairman of the world’s largest gathering of glass artists in 2006, he strove to surprise and challenge other artists with his innovative glass faucets.

Topics

  • Innovation & Creativity – Upcoming
    Technology Trends
  • Building a Billion Dollar Business
  • The LaunchCode – New Ways in Education
  • Payments, Mobile and the Future of Money
  • Seeing Around Corners – Location, Mobility and the Future of Retail
  • Connecting Science and Arts with
    the Business World

Publications

  • The Art of Fire: Beginning Glassblowing (2006)

Testimonials

“Jim delivered a keynote which set the tone very well, he also shared about upcoming technologies and trends for every industry to consider.”

“Jim’s keynote content was great and was very well prepared, crisp and clear and delivery was smooth.”

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