Mary Bent and Mike Krieger join Whitney to unravel the network behind the meteoric rise of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX and what was actually going on at the company. The discussion goes far beyond the obvious fraud at FTX and looks at the networks that brought Bankman-Fried to power and were using him as a front for a dangerous agenda.
Originally published 11/22/22.
Links discussed:
- Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex-And Maybe You Should Too | Sequoia Capital
- What FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and J.P. Morgan Have in Common – The New York Times
- Joseph Bankman’s CV
- The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism | The New Yorker
- ‘Queen Caroline’: The ‘Fake Charity Nerd Girl’ Behind The FTX Collapse | Forbes
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