How to survive tariffs: A ‘balance of patience and impatience’
About Amrita
- COO & CFO at Block, overseeing Square, Cash App, Afterpay, and TIDAL (2025)
- Chairperson of Square Financial Services, Block's chartered industrial bank
- Board member at Airbnb and Discord
- Former CFO at Blizzard Entertainment, part of Activision Blizzard
- Led finance & strategy roles at Fox Networks, Walt Disney, and Morgan Stanley
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On Rapid Response, host Bob Safian talks with Amrita Ahuja, CFO and COO of Block, about leading through economic turbulence. She says the key is balancing urgency with conviction, moving fast for customers while staying the course on Block’s mission to expand financial access.
Transcript
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There's ups, there's downs. You've got to have the right balance of patience and impatience. Impatience in the sense of moving as quickly as we can. In the recent macro environment, we're dealing with all sorts of uncertainty around tariffs and around consumer spend. And we have to be there to help our customers move their money as quickly and seamlessly as possible and meet their customers wherever they are. So that's our impatience. Our patience is to see through the ups and the downs in the volatility and keep the conviction on expanding access and empowering people to the economy.
