The Innovation Show

Part 6 explores how Dee Hock created the conditions for Visa to emerge Dee shares: How such a complex organisation made and implemented decisions. Self policing entities The dispersion of innovations Why Dee left Visa at the pinnacle of success Restoring the 200 acres of wild land Those 3 questions The Sante Fe Institue The New Odyssey at 65 Writing his book Abstract: 52 years ago, our guest foresaw and implemented the foundations for the world’s first trillion dollar organisation. Back then, Visa was little more than a set of unorthodox convictions about organisation slowly growing in the mind of a young corporate rebel. Today, according to the Visa 2019 annual report, payments and cash volume for the year was a staggering $11.6 trillion dollars, transactions processed on Visa’s networks totalled $138.3 trillion dollars and the year saw some 3.4 billion Visa cards in operation. He is the man who imagined this reality, who had a once-deemed-impossible vision 52 years ago, a vision which has become a conc