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Jackie Reses

Chair & CEO, Lead Bank · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jackie Reses is the Chair, CEO, and Co-Founder of Lead Bank. She previously served as Head of Square Capital and Chief Development Officer at Yahoo.

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3 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 5 opinions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jackie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Reses: Yahoo and Alibaba stopped speaking despite Yahoo's 40% stake
“If you remember, there was this dynamic where Carol Bartz had been in this contentious fight with Jack Ma that was widely chronicled, and the two companies stopped talking to each other, even though Yahoo owned 40% of Alibaba.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 3:17 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Lead Bank reached $280M in revenue and $31M in net income
“Our last year's revenue was about two hundred and eighty million dollars. Yeah. And about thirty one million dollars of net income.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 49:51 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Jackie Reses on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Jackie Reses said on Sourcery that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Reses: Claims of systematic industry 'debanking' are an absolute crock
“Okay, I don't believe there was debanking. I think it's a crock of shit. I think it's an absolute crock of shit.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 42:25 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Reses: Jack Dorsey is never wrong on product ideas, only timing
“And so sometimes he's wrong on timing, But he's never wrong about the idea, and so following his instincts is a great way to follow what to expect in consumer products.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 35:01 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reses: Square nearly delayed its Bitcoin launch over SEC accounting disputes
“And so we almost got held up that first quarterly earnings period because we couldn't get accountants in the SEC to agree that we were accounting it correctly and then actually get it in the numbers in order to launch the product.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 33:15 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Leading Square HR while Jack Dorsey ran Twitter was Reses's worst job
“Like, honestly, the worst job I ever had was being the head of HR at Square. So I ran these financial services products, and I ran HR. And the HR job at Square Could have been okay, but for the fact that Jack is running Twitter, and any time that there was dra…”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 36:18 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Reses: Yahoo and Alibaba stopped speaking despite Yahoo's 40% stake
“If you remember, there was this dynamic where Carol Bartz had been in this contentious fight with Jack Ma that was widely chronicled, and the two companies stopped talking to each other, even though Yahoo owned 40% of Alibaba.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 3:17 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Masayoshi Son focused purely on high-level approval, leaving execution to others
“Masa would almost just assume that everyone else would do it, and he would take the big picture concepts of it and just decide whether he was comfortable with it or not. And so it's almost the opposite of the way I work. I can't even fathom operating like that…”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 12:12 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Reses: Yahoo's Alibaba tax bill would be among largest in corporate history
“I think it was going to be one of the largest tax bills ever paid in corporate history.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 25:25 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Contradicted
Lead Bank reached $280M in revenue and $31M in net income
“Our last year's revenue was about two hundred and eighty million dollars. Yeah. And about thirty one million dollars of net income.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 49:51 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Disclosure
Reses: Lead Bank technical teams deploy almost all code with AI
“Our team uses AI in every team in our company. And it doesn't matter whether you're in the ops team, you're in the local lending team, you're on the HR team, and obviously our technical teams deploy almost all of their code with AI.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 56:11 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Reses: Square Capital originated as a 10-person Hack Week project
“Square Capital. It was actually a Hack Week project. That a bunch of folks had started, and so I took over for this amazing Hack Week project, and I ended up going to run literally this thing that had started. It had 10 colleagues that were pulled together fro…”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 28:48 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reses: Dorsey and three engineers coded Square's crypto platform in three days
“He took three engineers and he sat at the corner of the sixth floor at 14 55 market and didn't leave the office for three days. And so everyone sat there, he included, and they coded up the crypto trading platform.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 31:50 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Reses's brother has served as JD Vance's chief of staff since pre-Senate
“My brother's worked for JD since pre his Senate run, and he has this amazing job as his chief of staff, which is pretty surreal.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 57:33 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
JD and Usha Vance flew Reses to Washington on Air Force Two
“JD and Usha and many people from the White House were kind enough to come to my father's funeral last summer, and so we flew back to D.C., and they were nice enough to take me.”
Jackie Reses May 28, 2026 ▶ 1:00:28 She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 28, 2026 53m
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