Square's Push to Go Beyond Payments
By Cadie Thompson | CNBC – 39 minutes
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"We think there is something with higher margins there instead of always being a payments company," said Square CEO and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Friday evening at the New York University Entrepreneurial Festival.
While the four-year-old company has grown faster than most start-ups and has a pretty solid business model, the company is still very much a work in progress, Dorsey said. Square wants to not just focus on payments, but on the entire commerce experience, for both the buyer and the seller.
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"The good portion of working in payments is you naturally have a business model, so you really don't have to think so much about it, but it's not really who we are, it's something that we have to do," he said. "And where we are going isn't really about payments as a revenue model, but more about the data and the experience, and we don't know exactly what that looks like yet. We have some ideas... but we're not sure where it's going to land."
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Commerce is a continuum between the buyer and the seller and there are many facets of the entire commerce experience where Square sees opportunity, Dorsey said.
On the buyers' side, they have a decision to make about purchasing something. For the sellers, they have to think about attracting customers, analytics, customer relationship management and a slew of other factors in the commerce experience. Dorsey wants Square to be a part of all of it.
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"Buyers may end up engaging in a transaction, but that transaction is just one tiny unit of the overall continuum," Dorsey said. "We think there is something much broader in the experience that has very very little to do with payments."
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