FTX, every mention
10 scenes (said by David Sacks), the whole family · ← back to FTX
tap a year for its mentions
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
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,
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 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
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
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 1:33:35 David Sacks FTX, ignored for years. 2 times in the scene
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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