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▶ 1:04:26 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) Uh, uh, Sam, uh, Bankerman Freed, SBF, was running, um, Alameda, and they hosted an after party in the, uh, Singapore, uh, aquarium, uh, on Santosa, and they had divers in the fish tank, you know, holding a sign with, et cetera.

▶ 5:44 David Sacks And so what I think went wrong here was Alameda that Sam decided to siphon off customer deposits to gamble with his hedge fund. 8 times in the scene

▶ 1:56:41 Chamath Palihapitiya They flipped, but it turns out that they actually did engineer a backdoor into FTX and Alameda has been doing this for years.

▶ 2:29 Jason Calacanis Stephanopoulos did to him was extraordinary in that he said over and over again, in the FTX terms of service, you cannot touch the user accounts, but you at Alameda were taking them and you were loaning them out.
▶ 16:04 David Sacks When you look at the way that Alameda was exempted from the normal marginal requirements in FTX, there was the so-called back doors. 2 times in the scene
▶ 22:45 Chamath Palihapitiya Guys, some person in the media could have asked the question and dug in deeper around the connections between Alameda and FTX for the last 24 months. 2 times in the scene
▶ 31:13 David Sacks SBF's explanation of how customer money was siphoned off for his own personal use, i.e. to Alameda, is that Alameda had a margin account. 6 times in the scene

▶ 1:36:21 Chamath Palihapitiya And I just want to call one person, Nick, if you look at the Alameda research, this, uh, this firm called one inch J Cal invested in a firm named after the length of his penis.

▶ 24:04 Brian Armstrong You know, FTX was in a position where they had this market maker Alameda that was investing in risky things. 8 times in the scene
▶ 30:06 David Sacks Now, I read in some articles covering this, that the way it worked is that Alameda had a bunch of these FTT or these FTX tokens called FTT. 3 times in the scene
▶ 45:00 Brian Armstrong People just kept telling me, oh, his market maker Alameda is just printing cash. 2 times in the scene
▶ 58:49 Jason Calacanis Is it possible that Alameda, the trading hedge fund, was looking at the FTX data, which they had insights into, and essentially that's the same as seeing the whole cards in the ultimate bet, and so they're making their trades based on what…

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