Sam Bankman-Fried

31 statements across 12 episodes · 3 bullish · 24 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 12, 2022 by David Sacks · said 265 times in 27 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2022 175 mentions in 8 episodes 22 per episode

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Everything said about Sam Bankman-Fried, oldest first

Nov 12, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: SBF was the second-largest donor to the Democratic Party
“SBF was going to create this billion-dollar philanthropy to, you know, save the world, improve humanity's long-term prospects, number two donor to the entire Democratic Party”
David Sacks Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 48:58 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Nov 12, 2022 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Effective altruism is stealing money while claiming to save the world
“You want to know what effective altruism means? It means that you steal other people's money, While bragging about saving the world, while taking a big chunk for yourself.”
David Sacks Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 49:15 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Nov 12, 2022 negative
Opinion
Armstrong: Sam Bankman-Fried likely committed fraud and lied to FTX investors
“I mean, that that's the moment in my mind where he crossed the line into probably committing fraud. And I think he probably lied to users lied to investors.”
Brian Armstrong Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 25:23 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Nov 19, 2022 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: SBF gave zero donations to the Republican Party
“How many donations did he give to the Republican party? None.”
David Sacks Nov 19, 2022 ▶ 1:19:00 E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
Nov 19, 2022 negative
Opinion
Sacks: House Republicans should investigate SBF and FTX before Hunter Biden
“The first investigation by the House of Representatives needs to be SBF and FTX, not Hunter Biden. SBF makes Hunter Biden look like a piker. I mean, you know, Hunter Biden was what? A couple million dollars of grift. This is ten billion dollars plus a grift.”
David Sacks Nov 19, 2022 ▶ 1:34:27 E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
Nov 19, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Sam Bankman-Fried secretly loaned himself $1B off the balance sheet
“He loaned himself, like, this is just one data point. He loaned himself a billion dollars, and he loaned the head of engineering, five hundred million dollars off the balance sheet.”
David Sacks Nov 19, 2022 ▶ 1:30:48 E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
Nov 19, 2022 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Media failed to cover FTX due to complicity in SBF's reputation laundering
“The reason why these same publications are not covering this Is because they were complicit in his reputation laundering.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 19, 2022 ▶ 1:31:02 E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: SBF lobbied regulators to ban Binance while licensing FTX
“SPF was trying to get Binance and competitors like that banned while SPF would be one of the sole people to get the license.”
David Sacks Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 26:01 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: SBF gave millions of dollars to media outlets
“He was also giving millions of dollars to press outlets.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 23:20 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Palihapitiya: SBF owned 90% of Alameda while dating CEO Caroline Ellison
“He was dating the CEO of the business that he owned 90% in. There are all these other random shell companies that he owned a hundred percent of where they were lending back and forth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 18:50 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Opinion
Palihapitiya: Media allows SBF's apology tour to protect its own credibility
“And they refuse to re-underwrite this kid. And the reason is because in order to do so, it's like eating your own tail. And that's why they don't want to do it. And so this is why you have the media basically allowing him to do an apology tour.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 9:15 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Semafor framed FTX as bank run after taking SBF's money
“And then Semaphore, who was on the take, who received millions of dollars in his money, said it was a run on the bank.”
David Sacks Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 44:53 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Opinion
Calacanis: NYT is treating Sam Bankman-Fried with kid gloves
“The New York Times continues to embarrass themselves by handling Sam Bankman fraud with kid gloves.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 1:37 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Opinion
Sacks: NYT covered SBF more favorably than Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
“Even after this fraud, the New York Times wrote more of a puff piece on him than the hit piece they wrote on Brian Armstrong last year, when Brian Armstrong wouldn't toe the line on allowing politics at work.”
David Sacks Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 20:41 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022
What-if
Friedberg: Someone else would have exploited crypto if SBF hadn't
“If it wasn't this guy, it was someone else. It was going to be someone else.”
David Friedberg Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 13:43 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 positive
Opinion
Chamath: Twitter Spaces questioned SBF better than any mainstream journalist
“The Twitter spaces yesterday did a better job of trying to ask questions and getting to the truth than a single journalist has done, or the collective body of all of journalists.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 45:23 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Sam Bankman-Fried is admitting negligence to avoid fraud charges
“I think if there is a strategy here, it is this, he is basically copying to criminal negligence in order to avoid the more serious charges of fraud.”
David Sacks Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 3:15 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: FTX left up a video of SBF quantitative trading on Binance
“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. It's a 17 and a half minute YouTube video of SBF trading arbitrage across markets.”
David Friedberg Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 12:14 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 3, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg: SBF publicly admitted he and FTX staff took legal prescription drugs
“He admitted to it in an interview this week, he said that it was all legal prescription drugs, but they were taking them, yes.”
David Friedberg Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 14:49 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Dec 24, 2022 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Friedberg predicts SBF will be sentenced to multiple hundreds of years
“I think it's going to be a hundred multiple hundreds of years sentence i agree and you'll be gone for life”
David Friedberg Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:59:50 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
Jan 13, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: SBF donation clawbacks will trigger broad campaign finance investigations
“And that's why the Southern District of New York said that this case is becoming too big for them, because all the places that SBF sent money, all those PACs and all those political donations. They have to go and investigate where that money went and see if th…”
David Friedberg Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 1:23:10 E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
Jun 24, 2023 negative
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacks predicts Sam Bankman-Fried will avoid criminal conviction
“No, it looks like he's getting off.”
David Sacks Jun 24, 2023 ▶ 1:12 E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
Jun 24, 2023 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Sam Bankman-Fried is almost as protected as Hunter Biden
“He's almost as protected as Hunter Biden.”
David Sacks Jun 24, 2023 ▶ 1:23 E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Brian Armstrong: Sam Bankman-Fried should go to jail
“You know, Sam Bankman-Fried should go to jail.”
Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 7:04 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
Dec 29, 2023 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Sam Bankman-Fried turned out to be an Adderall-addicted grifter
“I think, like, from what looked like a too-good-to-be wonderkind, frankly, just turned out to be an Adderall addicted grifter.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 40:46 E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
Mar 29, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath says SBF's employee sent a five-line spreadsheet as FTX's financial model
“When I had my one and only interaction with SPF, which was over a zoom, I asked for a model and this arrogant ding dong that worked for him sent me like a five line Excel spreadsheet.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 11:51 E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
Mar 29, 2024 negative
Opinion
Calacanis is convinced Sam Bankman-Fried was taking extreme levels of speed
“I am convinced that these guys were taking a level of speed that would kill an elephant.”
Jason Calacanis Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 15:22 E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
Mar 29, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: SBF's seed investments in Anthropic and Solana were worth billions
“He made a seed investment in Anthropik that's worth billions now. He made a seed investment in Solana that I think is worth billions now, especially now that Solana has recovered.”
David Sacks Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 4:32 E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
Apr 5, 2024 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Media narrative on FTX aims to commute Bankman-Fried's sentence
“I believe that this narrative that they're trying to concoct, which we now know is completely false, is designed to serve a purpose. And I think that purpose is to get SBF either pardoned or have his sentence commuted because Mr. Bankman and Ms. Freed are huge…”
David Sacks Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 10:11 E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
Jul 30, 2026 positive
What-if
Friedberg: Sam Bankman-Fried would be greatest investor ever if not liquidated
“SBF pretty much would have been the greatest investor of all time if he didn't get liquidated. Same dynamic. I mean, obviously there was fraud in terms of how he was allocating capital, but his actual portfolio over the long run was absolutely correct.”
David Friedberg Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 13:14 Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
Sep 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Anthropic's Series A was co-led by Tallinn, Moskovitz, and Bankman-Fried
“You also have the fact that this whole resignation tweet storm was amplified by these groups who were funded by Jan Talon and Dustin Moskowitz, who co-led the Series A of Anthropic along with Sam Bankman-Fried. It was an EA-funded round, which is a really inte…”
David Sacks Sep 12, 2026 ▶ 55:47 AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
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