Block, Inc.
Founded 2009 · Oakland, United StatesBlock, Inc. (known as Square, Inc. until 2021) is an American technology and financial-services company for consumers and merchants, founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey and Tristan O’Tierney. It operates as a group of brands: Square (payments and POS), Cash App (consumer finance app), Afterpay (BNPL), TIDAL (music streaming), Bitkey and Proto (bitcoin) and Spiral. The company also develops an open-source AI agent called goose. Block is listed on the NYSE under the ticker XYZ.
Founders
Co-founder and CEO of Block; co-founder and former CEO of Twitter.
Domain of activity
1 areas · 1 technologies · 2 industriesWhat they do1Areas
- Agent systems
How they do it1Technologies
- Agentic AI
Who for2Industries
- Finance & banking
- Software & Technology
Global presence
HQ Oakland · 2 regionsGlobalUSA
Scale & funding
founded 20092009founded
approx. 6,000employees
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
Organizational relations
7 brandsProfile & metadata
4 classification · 6 external linksClassification
- Statusactive
- Development stagemature
- Listed onYes
- Organization typePlatform company
