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What can we ship today? The world is changing rapidly for sellers, modern earners, and creators so we have to move with intention and fast. Our leadership team on why speed and focus matter for our customers ⬇️

For a lot of teens, financial decisions start early. First paycheck. First account. First time budgeting their own money. It’s why we’re working with community partners like @Everfi in local schools across cities including DC, Atlanta, and St. Louis to bring financial literacy into the classroom so students don’t have to figure it out alone. More here: block.xyz/inside/block-p…

The vision: block.xyz/inside/when-dr…

A decade ago, Square's Dreams Films asked: What is the state of the American Dream? The answer was found in Eagle Butte, South Dakota—in the work of Julie Garreau and the Cheyenne River Youth Project. Our role has always been to protect visions for every kind of dream. Ten years later, their story continues. youtube.com/watch?v=xT4Cdl…

Bitcoin Day so you know it’s real…btc.day Our Cash App, Square, and Bitkey teams are holding hands to celebrate with $1 million in bitcoin giveaways. April 6-10, we’re helping people experience bitcoin in everyday life. All the info: block.xyz/inside/bitcoin…

The bitcoin faucet is back. 04.06.26 btc.day

@jewelia Welcome to the block!

Hi, news! After several deeply meaningful years at Apple, I'm joining @blocks to lead Consumer Engineering. I've spent my career at the intersection of scale and craft: building systems that reach millions of people around the world (not just in Silicon Valley!), while still sweating the small details that make products feel magical. My time at Apple taught me volumes about building not just products, but experiences that reshape and redefine our relationship with technology. Block drew me in for a few reasons. First, the products. Cash App, Square, Afterpay, Tidal are products people rely on every day to run their businesses and their financial lives. There is seriousness and care in how Block makes every interaction worthy of that trust. The emphasis on product quality, craft, and excellence is refreshing, and I'm excited to bring my own perspective to that. Second, the AI opportunity. We're at an inflection point where smart, disciplined use of AI can make financial products fundamentally better — not just faster or cheaper, but more human. More intuitive. More empowering. Natural language can strip away years of accumulated complexity and make powerful tools feel simple. I've spent years working on exactly that, and I can't wait to apply it here. Third — and most importantly — the mission. Block's purpose is to empower people with economic tools to access and thrive in the economy. For the millions of people underserved by traditional financial institutions, that mission isn't abstract. It's real. It matters. And I want to spend my time on work that matters. 💜

Our Business Lead @owenbjennings on how we're operating and building what comes next.

@Ivanandmore @Block @CashApp @AfterPay Welcome to the block!

Hi Twitter! After a couple months of rewiring — hiking Patagonia (bucket list ✔️) and skiing with my family — I’m joining @Block to lead the @CashApp and @Afterpay product teams. Few companies care as deeply about product and design taste as Block, and the opportunity ahead is massive. Block is in a unique position to seamlessly connect Cash App customers with local businesses powered by Square, offer the most intuitive, personal, and helpful financial advisor with Moneybot, and reinvent credit with Afterpay. I’m excited to help shape the future of money where everyone has easy access to the most advanced and delightful financial products. And to help build Block’s future as an AI-native company across both product experience and operating model. I’m also looking forward to reconnecting with several AllTrails and Airbnb alums there. Stoked for what we’ll build next. Let’s go! 🚀

Square is No. 4 on @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies in Retail List for 2026: fastcompany.com/91492972/retai… We do it for the neighborhood. #FCMostInnovative

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“We have to rethink how companies run, how they're structured, how they're built. It has to be closer to building the company as an intelligence.” There’s a new layer to build. @jack in conversation with @StevenLevy at @WIRED: wired.com/story/jack-dor…

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

Our story started with a problem. That problem was a lost sale. Jim McKelvey was unable to sell one of his glass blown art pieces because he couldn't accept a card payment. So he called @jack. The rest is in the conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/squ… 🌭🍾

Open source is a powerful tool to enhance economic empowerment. Freedom of access and use enables more users to access high quality software code and empowers greater innovation through access to tools. It is the backbone of the internet, but remains undervalued and misunderstood. We're releasing a white paper with support from @OpenSourceOrg on treating open source as the critical infrastructure it is. Read it: opensource.block.xyz/blog/open-sour…

We’re using AI in security to safeguard the financial access people depend on. Our CISO James Nettesheim shares with @runpanther our approach to principled risk-taking and how goose, an open-source AI agent, is unlocking faster thread detection to protect the financial access of sellers, individuals, and the modern earner. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=KkUtft…

Our Sales and Marketing Lead @nmolnar reflects on building Afterpay and the next chapter of driving growth at Block with @mrjoeaston on @rampart_news - Leading Afterpay through March 2020 - Building at Block over retiring - Cash App's opportunity to build the bank for the next generation - Making Bitcoin every day money youtube.com/watch?v=op_LMd…