David Jeans and Sarah Emerson
"The Devil In Nerd’s Clothes"
How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Cult Of Genius Fooled Everyone
Forbes, 2022
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Cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapsed, along with its founder’s carefully constructed persona.
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Once lauded as a master in the sphere of cryptocurrencies, Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of crypto exchange FTX, now finds himself under arrest and indicted on criminal fraud charges. But just months earlier, Bankman-Fried was flying high, with investors championing his crypto acumen and his philanthropic ambitions. In this engrossing narrative of the rise and fall of FTX, journalists David Jeans and Sarah Emerson explore the labyrinth of greed, lies and fraud that Bankman-Fried built.
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David Jeans and Sarah Emerson are staff reporters at Forbes.
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