I was shocked when I first learned how a hot mess like Sam Bankman-Fried got away with convincing so many seemingly smart people — big money managers, venture capitalists and all those celebrity ambassadors — that he was such a boy genius of investing, they should turn over lots of money for him to play with. Sam Bankman-Fried’s minions gambled away customer funds in the global crypto casino. They didn’t think twice that relatively overnight he had become a billionaire and Democratic megadonor, giving big bucks to pols with oversight into crypto. After watching SBF’s Wednesday performance with Sorkin, O’Leary, known as “Mr. SBF also told Sorkin he’s speaking publicly about what went down against his lawyer’s advice, because he wants to do the right thing and help make everyone who lost money whole.
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