When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did. Jim McKelvey Read Quote
It’s obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services. Jim McKelvey Read Quote
Art is what can’t be proven mathematically, right, it’s where science ends. It’s the part that makes you feel good, but you don’t know why. Jim McKelvey Read Quote
If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it. Jim McKelvey Read Quote
At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it. Jim McKelvey Read Quote
Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you’re just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there’s split seconds where you’ve got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don’t get to repeat it if you do it wrong. Jim McKelvey Read Quote
When my son was born, I decided I wasn’t really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit. Jim McKelvey Read Quote
