Follow Your Frustration: Jim McKelvey on Originality and Innovation

March 31st, 2026  |  Season 3  |  47 mins

entrepreneurship, innovation, philanthropy, st. louis, washu

Today on The Owner’s Box, we are joined by Jim McKelvey. Jim is probably best known as the co-founder of Square, the payment technology company he built alongside Jack Dorsey that went on to reshape how small businesses accept payments. You may not know that Square is in a very small cadre of companies that Amazon tried to copy and couldn't, which Jim illuminates in his recent book, The Innovation Stack.  On today’s episode, Originality and Impact with Jim McKelvey.

Tactics from the Owner’s Box: Social Discount

May 9th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  9 mins 22 secs

business, cliff asness, performance, purpose, social good, st. louis, virtue, washu

In today’s tactics from “The Owner’s Box,” we explore whether one can and should put a number…. to what it means to balance social purpose and business performance.

Ultimately, how much overlap you see between the financial maximization of returns and the non-financial drivers of business likely shapes what you see as possible