[space_rock]

Their growth was reasonably organic if you were following the popularity of exchanges

[oldstrangers]

I've "followed exchanges" since Mt Gox, got screwed by Mintpal, saw the fall of cryptsy, the rise and eventual irrelevance of Bittrex, the rise and eventual irrelevance of Poloniex... Even with all of that, I still don't immediately know where FTX came from.