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by piyh 99 days ago
>I find it suspicious how he came to prominence out of nowhere

He was first funded by FTX

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Holy rabbit hole.

SBF was in Patel's previous podcast in July 2022 and FTX unraveled in November 2022. Hmm.

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sbf

> I flew to the Bahamas to interview Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX! He talks about FTX’s plan to infiltrate traditional finance, giving $100m this year to AI + pandemic risk, scaling slowly + hiring A-players, and much more.

And that was right in the middle of FTX being accused by many prominent people .

April 29, 2022 https://x.com/AlderLaneEggs/status/1520023221294145536

June 20, 2022 https://x.com/MartyBent/status/1538645746655936519

I clipped the SBF Dwarkesh interview for the relevant portion where he asks about co-mingling of funds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIbgUy0T8U

Grifters gonna grift, and this one is well-connected.