#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence

Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square.

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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:48 – Engineering at scale
08:36 – Increasing access to the economy
13:09 – Machine learning at Square
15:18 – Future of the digital economy
17:17 – Cryptocurrency
25:31 – Artificial intelligence
27:49 – Her
29:12 – Exchange with Elon Musk about bots
32:05 – Concerns about artificial intelligence
35:40 – Andrew Yang
40:57 – Eating one meal a day
45:49 – Mortality
47:50 – Meaning of life
48:59 – Simulation