I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.
From Jim McKelvey
I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.
St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.
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.
Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.
It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.
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