Square Adds Steve Lee to Crypto Team

Thursday, 13/06/2019 | 07:06 GMT by Arnab Shome
  • The company did not specify his role in the newly formed team.
Square Adds Steve Lee to Crypto Team
Finance Magnates

Payments company Square has announced the appointment of Steve Lee, an ex-director at Google, as the first member of its new crypto team.

The US-based company, however, did not specify Lee’s role, neither did it mention his position at the company. Square only teased the new appointment via a tweet on June 13.

Lee left Google in 2015 after serving it for more than eight years. At the search engine giant, he worked on projects involving mobile applications to its research and development arm.

Bitcoin Core contributor

According to his Linkedin profile, Lee is currently working as a volunteer Bitcoin project manager and is helping the community to “increase the velocity of development, improve the user experience, improve the storytelling, [and] ensure decentralization.”

He is also a Silicon Valley angel investor and is holding stakes of startups including Highlighter, StyleSeat, Anchor Labs, Bytegain, Alto Financial, and Halo Neuroscience. His successful exits include Lyft, Pinterest, Yardbarker, Lil Green Patch, and Foodspotting.

Launched as a mobile-based payment platform, Square extended its support towards cryptocurrency trading in November 2017 by the launch of its peer-to-peer Cash app. The platform had more than 15 million active customers in December 2018, doubling its userbase from a year earlier. The company is headed by Twitter’s founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.

Dorsey last March announced that the payments company is going to focus more on its Cash App and will hire a dedicated team for crypto.

Earlier this year, Finance Magnates reported that Square recorded $65 million in Bitcoin revenue in Q1 2019, however, the profits from the trades were capped at only $832,000.

Payments company Square has announced the appointment of Steve Lee, an ex-director at Google, as the first member of its new crypto team.

The US-based company, however, did not specify Lee’s role, neither did it mention his position at the company. Square only teased the new appointment via a tweet on June 13.

Lee left Google in 2015 after serving it for more than eight years. At the search engine giant, he worked on projects involving mobile applications to its research and development arm.

Bitcoin Core contributor

According to his Linkedin profile, Lee is currently working as a volunteer Bitcoin project manager and is helping the community to “increase the velocity of development, improve the user experience, improve the storytelling, [and] ensure decentralization.”

He is also a Silicon Valley angel investor and is holding stakes of startups including Highlighter, StyleSeat, Anchor Labs, Bytegain, Alto Financial, and Halo Neuroscience. His successful exits include Lyft, Pinterest, Yardbarker, Lil Green Patch, and Foodspotting.

Launched as a mobile-based payment platform, Square extended its support towards cryptocurrency trading in November 2017 by the launch of its peer-to-peer Cash app. The platform had more than 15 million active customers in December 2018, doubling its userbase from a year earlier. The company is headed by Twitter’s founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.

Dorsey last March announced that the payments company is going to focus more on its Cash App and will hire a dedicated team for crypto.

Earlier this year, Finance Magnates reported that Square recorded $65 million in Bitcoin revenue in Q1 2019, however, the profits from the trades were capped at only $832,000.

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About the Author: Arnab Shome
Arnab is an electronics engineer-turned-financial editor. He entered the industry covering the cryptocurrency market for Finance Magnates and later expanded his reach to forex as well. He is passionate about the changing regulatory landscape on financial markets and keenly follows the disruptions in the industry with new-age technologies.
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