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And to moderate todays conversation before i introduce our guest thank you for the organizer and sponsor. The publisher of a new series of the abolitionist papers and i am proud doctor gilmores forthcoming book change everything, racial capitalism and a case for abolition. Haymarket has three more important events lined up this week on sunday. And on thursday one week from today and conversation with the money perry. Was so many people joining the call we need your patience with technical issues you may want to try reduce your image quality video will be recorded and we are reserving time for q a please post your questions on the live video feed wherever you are watching it. The pandemic is a portal to imagine the world. Some responses to covid19 that doubles down on criminalization on national and subnational borders now serves us with a message of total surveillance of good medicine. As we try to imagine a different world and fight for our future there is no one i would rather hear f ....
Problems that havent yet been solved. So thats what i call the perfect problem because that, in fact, is the focus of what i think entrepreneurship is. In other words, you are looking for a way to solve a problem that is solvable but hasnt been done. You had to do something you and you dont get to copy. And so we were then taken around for ideas and you do not have an idea and i didnt have an idea so we started looking for problems that we can solve and came up with the problem of how they got paid. When did you come to that conclusion, you talk in the book about your work, tummy about that moment that payments were a problem for small merchants. It was funny because as i said jack had been kicked out of twitter and my first reaction to that was jack was like a little brother to me, somebody felt like i needed to stand up for and what they did to him at twitter the first time was completely bile. So my first suggestion was lets go to S ....
Steve told the story of going from a glass blower in st. Louis teaming of the founder of twitter to build a multibillion payment company. In the book you talk about a lot about perfect problems. When did you realize that Small Business payments were a you are going to have to do something new and you cannot copy. I hired jack when he was 15, he was a High School Student came into work at a company that i actually still have. I dont run any of my companies but it also dont sell them. This ones been around for 30 years. He goes off to college, we kept in touch. And then he had kicked out of twitter, the first time,. [laughter] they showed him the door and he came back to st. Louis and he came back we were hanging out and talking and decided to start a company together. We are then kicking around ideas he didnt have an idea and i didnt have an idea suisse are looking for pr ....
I want to start by thanking our speaker David Marwell and David Goldman for agreeing to switch to this new medium. Its the medium of livestream and we are presenting that tonight in partnership with their very good friends at the princeton public library. I think we are all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment but there are so many of us in this is one of those antidotes. We are sharing the next hour tonight. Briefly before i introduce our speakers i just want to say quickly that David Marwells book mengele unmasking the angel of death available at labyrinth or your nearest and dearest local bookstore. All of us in the independent bookselling world are trying to find a way to find your support if you want to buy this book at labyrinth that will be shipped for free. If you place your order over th ....