Sam Bankman-Fried
Convicted founder of FTX whose illicit investment portfolio would be worth $114B today.
“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.'”
“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”
“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.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.