The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
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…”
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.”
Lin: Airbnb, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Square drove Sequoia's $43B distribution
“Airbnb, DoorDash, Unity, Snowflake I'm sure I'm missing a few others. Mongo, Square.”
Gil: Jack Dorsey cleared him to invest in Stripe despite executive pushback
“I remember I was an investor in Square and the Stripe founders pinged me and asked if I wanted to invest. And so I pinged one of the key executives at Square and said, Hey, do you think this is a conflict? And he said, absolutely. This is a conflict. You shoul…”
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.”
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…”