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Alameda Research

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2021 by Sam Bankman-Fried · said 14 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Ben Gilbert (7), David Rosenthal (3), Sam Bankman-Fried (2), Mario Gabriele (2)

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Dec 15, 2021 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Bankman-Fried: Incumbent exchanges clawed back 17% of winning traders' weekly profits
“So each week they would email the customers and be like, congrats. You got 83% of your P&L this week. The other 17% went to bail out people who were underwater. And that was just happening every week.”
Sam Bankman-Fried Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 37:16 FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
Dec 15, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bankman-Fried: The Japanese Bitcoin arbitrage window lasted only 3-4 weeks
“Unfortunately we basically scaled up capital base the day that the ARB went away. And so we failed to really ever get to the point where we could have gotten with it, but it's still an amazing trade for the three or four weeks that both, like, we were active a…”
Sam Bankman-Fried Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 22:55 FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
Dec 15, 2021
Assertion Contradicted
Bankman-Fried: No crypto company had ever received an audit by early 2018
“Literally no crypto company has ever gotten audited before of any type. And we've been around for two months. Obviously we don't have an audit.”
Sam Bankman-Fried Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 26:26 FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
Dec 15, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bankman-Fried: Alameda made about $1M a day on Japan Bitcoin arb
“We still made like a million dollars a day from it during that period.”
Sam Bankman-Fried Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 22:33 FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
Dec 15, 2021
Disclosure
Bankman-Fried: Alameda bootstrapped with a few million dollars without outside equity
“We cobbled together a few million dollars and then, you know, sort of like iterated on that capital base over time, although without ever taking external, like, equity or anything like that.”
Sam Bankman-Fried Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 25:04 FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
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