FTX, every mention
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every year anyone Jason Calacanis 45David Sacks 30Chamath Palihapitiya 28David Friedberg 11Mark Cuban 3Michael Selig 2Gavin Baker 2Changpeng Zhao (CZ) 2Brian Armstrong 2Francis Suarez 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where FTX comes up
They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means
- ▶ 54:08 Michael Selig Uh, we can't have another FTX in the United States where funds are lost and, and there's, uh, an absolute fraud on, on our American people. 2 times in the scene
Binance CEO: 4 Months in Prison, $4 Billion Fine, and What Comes Next
- ▶ 1:03:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Then you start to see some of these other folks start to pick up steam, SBF and FTX start to really tell me about that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:48 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) At some volume, they said, look, we're gonna give, we're gonna basically, you know, give you 20% at this, at this price, and there was a swap of tokens, a BNB versus FTT tokens, so that's, we got some initial FTT tokens. 2 times in the scene
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 42:37 David Sacks By the way, it's probably not a coincidence that the biggest fraud in the history of crypto, which was FTX,
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:59 Gavin Baker Yeah, I mean, look at FTX. 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 1:20:02 Mark Cuban If FTX wants to loan out all their Ethereum, you have to do what they did in Japan. 3 times in the scene
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 7:39 Jason Calacanis We talked about SPF getting 25 years and that broke right as we started the show and we discussed that the customers of FTX were going to get made whole. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Jason Calacanis And in September, the judge allowed FTX to start liquidating up to a hundred million a week in Delaware, right?
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 2:33 Jason Calacanis SPF, Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, was found guilty, as you know. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:00 David Sacks The point being that a lot of the investments he made ended up being pretty good investments and FTX itself, the trading platform, as far as we know, was a functional workable business. 8 times in the scene
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 53:11 Chamath Palihapitiya It's a tie between FTX and Silicon Valley Bank.
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 10:35 Chamath Palihapitiya And then there's this part of the enforcement action after this FTX fiasco, which is a lot of CYA. 3 times in the scene
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 1:23:39 Chamath Palihapitiya The one that came the closest was the one that was the most fraudulent, which is FTX.
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 46:55 Jason Calacanis All kinds of shenanigans with FTX and front-running and painting the tape. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:42 David Friedberg He uses Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX as an example, that the money that was given to Sam Bankman-Fried's, you know, exchange fund was used to buy assets that then very quickly declined in value by 99%, but he held them on the book
E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- ▶ 22:58 David Friedberg Like, when, when things go wrong in industry, in FTX, in, in all these places, in, in a train derailment, our, our, our current kind of training for all of us, not just you, but for all of us, is to pivot to which government person can I…
- ▶ 53:04 David Friedberg Lina Khan, uh, crypto crackdown, FTX, and the regulation.
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
- ▶ 1:03:18 David Friedberg Particularly given that a few weeks ago we were all kind of talking about the FTX debacle and how no one was doing their diligence and no one was digging in and no one was kind of revealing publicly what was going on inside of that…
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 31:48 David Friedberg I mean, this one's just a simple FTX. 4 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. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:56 Jason Calacanis but i said a good line uh okay most lowest some company is ftx anybody want to go for a second keep moving
- ▶ 2:10:37 Jason Calacanis I go with Kevin O'Leary, who's secured a fifteen million dollar bag from FTX and then decided to try to defend it, ah, 18 ways to Sunday, burning whatever reputation he had.
E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- ▶ 6:57 David Sacks This is an FTX level fraud, except that what was stolen here was not customer funds, it was their free speech rights. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:27 Jason Calacanis I, I think we have to talk about FTX. 5 times in the scene
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 12:14 David Friedberg For some reason FTX has left up all of their videos on YouTube from three years ago called quantitative trading seven and a half thousand cell wall of Bitcoin on Binance.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:51 David Sacks And part of the consideration, hold on, part of the consideration were these tokens, these FTT tokens.
- ▶ 36:28 David Sacks And, and FTX somehow misadministered the margin account. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:34 Jason Calacanis In FTX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:15 Jason Calacanis Uh, Wall Street Journal, one day ago, Sequoia Capital apologizes to its fund investors for FTX loss.
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 7:11 Jason Calacanis But speaking of buying politicians and coverage, uh, let's get an update on FTX.
- ▶ 1:32:43 Jason Calacanis The two rhinos, it says FTX losing over a billion dollars of client funds.
- ▶ 1:33:35 David Sacks FTX, ignored for years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:57 Jason Calacanis He's FTX's new CEO. 4 times in the scene
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 20:53 Jason Calacanis FTX crypto exchange went belly up and, uh, we thought, well, let's bring somebody in who's super credible in crypto. 10 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. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:48 Chamath Palihapitiya There was a bankruptcy filing today, and up until today, it seemed like this issue was really about FTX International and Alameda, and it didn't touch FTX US, which for a lot, a long time, tried to position itself as, you know, well run… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:34 Brian Armstrong At that time, FTX did about one billion in revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:30 Chamath Palihapitiya I think the problem is bigger than FTX, uh, and I'll say the uncomfortable part out loud, and nobody needs to necessarily comment if you don't want to, but there were an enormous number of venture firms that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:26 Chamath Palihapitiya So if the SEC is really, and the DOJ is really going to take this FTT token issue seriously, and what happened to FTX?
- ▶ 56:24 David Friedberg You know, exchange through the exchange, but, but mechanistically, these guys were storing their coins, their, their cryptocurrency inside of FTX's wallets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, and so, you know, I really hope that regulators, not just obviously, I hope that regulators do their, do the best they can to get investors money back in FTX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:53 David Sacks On FTX and having their money get stolen.
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 5:13 Jason Calacanis Uh, and, uh, FTX provided a two hundred fifty million dollar credit line to BlockFi. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 David Sacks Sam Bankman Freed, he runs FTX, and his company, he lives in the Bahamas, okay, and there are probably reasons for that related to liability or taxes or something like that. 4 times in the scene
#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
- ▶ 16:53 Francis Suarez Uh, and then we got, uh, FTX to name our arena, which a two hundred million dollar, uh, gift or contribution to our, our community.
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 3:33 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, that may not be true for FTX, but.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 53:43 Chamath Palihapitiya Crypto, I think he's an investor in FTX and a bunch of other things.