Sam Bankman-Fried
Convicted founder of FTX whose illicit investment portfolio would be worth $114B today.
“Sequoia's deleted blog post about Sam Bankman-Fried”
Source→“I think the Supreme Court is going to take the case and overturn it narrowly... This is an eighth amendment issue. You can't find somebody $12 billion”
Source→“After Sam Bankman-Fried did what he did with FTX and got sent to jail, he was like a big effective altruist and he had made pandemics like their big cause. They needed a new cause and they got behind this idea of X risk.”
Source→“Sam Bankman-Fried lost his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year sentence over the collapse of FTX, with a federal appeals court saying the evidence against him was 'robust.'”
Source→“His overall portfolio out of what he his slush fund that he was inappropriately using illegally using customer funds to go invest. It'd be 114 billion dollars today.”
Source→“Sam Bankman-Fried — Formally applied for a presidential pardon from President Trump”
Source→“If he hadn't ended up being a crook or very sloppy, the venture investments he made would have... Cursor, Anthropic, Solana, everything he did. I mean, the guy had a great nose for value.”
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