Mr. Bankman-Fried said in an interview that he had expanded too fast and failed to see warning signs. But he shared few details about his handling of FTX customers’ funds.
Transcript of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Interview at the DealBook Summit (Published 2022)
In a discussion with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times, Sam Bankman-Fried blamed “huge management failures” and sloppy accounting for the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
FTX held less than $1bn in liquid assets against $9bn in liabilities
Vast gap highlights the dire state of Sam Bankman-Fried’s exchange before it collapsed into bankruptcy
Review: Michael Lewis's Going Infinite
If Sam Bankman-Fried is convicted in the upcoming FTX fraud trial, Lewis’s admiring biography will take an awkward place on the shelves of history.
Sam Bankman-Fried Draws From Vast Vocabulary of Weasel Words During Cross-Examination
During Sam Bankman-Fried's cross-examination on Monday, the disgraced FTX founder seemd to suffer from memory loss and evaded prosecutions questions.
What Does Sam Bankman-Fried Have to Say for Himself?
An interview with the disgraced CEO.
How Michael Lewis’s Book on Sam Bankman-Fried Went Off the Rails
The CEO of FTX was the worst possible subject for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring.
This is a thread of my thoughts and feelings about the actions that led to FTX’s bankruptcy, and the enormous harm that was caused as a result, involving the likely loss of many thousands of innocent people’s savings.
This is a thread of my thoughts and feelings about the actions that led to FTX’s bankruptcy, and the enormous harm that was caused as a result, involving the likely loss of many thousands of innocent people’s savings.— William MacAskill (@willmacaskill) November 11, 2022
Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides
The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929
As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.
What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about "longtermism"
I'm not surprised that longtermism led to fraud, corruption and disaster. I'm mostly surprised it wasn't worse
Some thoughts on the FTX collapse
New episode of Bad Takes is out, about the temptation to engage in way-too-early 2024 prognostication.
The crypto dream
Arvind Narayanan just gave a fascinating talk at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy entitled ‘What Happened to the Crypto Dream?’. That link is to the video, whi…
The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank
The Rapid Collapse of the 16th Largest Bank in America
