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by jjfoooo4 11 days ago
(I work for Block, not on this)

Cash App was not an acquisition, it originated as a hackweek within (what was then called) Square.

Possibly you’re thinking of the Afterpay acquisition?

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Ahh sorry, you’re right, I meant Afterpay which was a $29B acquisition. I also meant Weebly not weekly (autocorrect).
Weebly was interesting because before that Square had their own online store (it went through a bunch of names over time) and they existed concurrently for a while, although I'm not sure if they still do. The codebase was a nightmare and the whole team had abandoned it and moved on to other things, which meant it wasn't getting fixes or updates for a while.