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Jim McKelvey says Square recruited an early data-centre hire from a high-traffic porn site
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What About AI Terrifies The Guy Who Created Square? | Jim McKelvey #507 | The Way I Heard It
What was said
"That's the the original guru at Square who built our data centers. We pulled from one of the top porn sites because they had the traffic and this guy knew how to handle it. Nobody else did."
Jim McKelvey says that an early Square engineer who helped build the company’s data centres was recruited from “one of the top porn sites”, arguing that the person’s experience handling heavy traffic made him well suited to Square’s needs at the time. The anecdote is presented as McKelvey’s account and is not independently verified in the excerpt.
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- Speaker
- Jim McKelvey · guest
- Programme
- The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
- Episode
- What About AI Terrifies The Guy Who Created Square? | Jim McKelvey #507 | The Way I Heard It
- Clip time
- 2:35
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