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:
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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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”