FTX, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Benedict Evans 16Toni Cowan-Brown 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where FTX comes up
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 16:30 Benedict Evans To me, that's like saying, well, look, you know, FTX did all this fraud with spreadsheets, so clearly we need to regulate spreadsheets.
Bundling/Unbundling AI
- ▶ 11:39 Benedict Evans Obviously, um, if you're running FTX, you discovered the answer it is, um, which is you probably shouldn't, you probably shouldn't be using QuickBooks either, not to run twenty billion dollars of customer funds.
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
- ▶ 4:09 Benedict Evans Now, what immediately then happened was people used it to mean trading Bitcoin and, um, FTX.
- ▶ 25:52 Benedict Evans You know, FTX and Binance and, and, and everything else, um, and in, in, in particular NFTs, um, but what we would actually like to be able to do is to build an Instagram on this, or at least build a Twitter on this, and there's a lot more…
All the other things happening in tech part 1.
- ▶ 0:03 Toni Cowan-Brown And today we wanted to talk about maybe all of the things that we're potentially not paying attention to that are happening in the tech space, because there's a lot of noise coming out of Elon Musk, Twitter, FTX.
The FTX face-palm
- ▶ 0:50 Benedict Evans And I thought FTX was a little bit more interesting.
- ▶ 1:25 Benedict Evans Looking at this is looking at FTX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Benedict Evans And you could kind of argue the inverse here that, that, that, that, um, that FTX was selling Wall Street to non-Wall Street people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:28 Toni Cowan-Brown Binance and FTX both have Binance.us and FTX.us, but this is not, those are not the entities that are.
- ▶ 8:56 Benedict Evans If somebody opens an account on FTX or Binance or Coinbase with the purpose of buying any of the following dozen tokens in the expectation that they're going to go up so that they can sell them, that sounds to me like you're buying a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:40 Benedict Evans So you built, so this kind of gets you people creating what we call DeFi, distributed finance, in which, which is basically what the, the FTX guy's hedge fund, Alameda, I can't remember what it was called, the hedge fund was trying to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Benedict Evans Um, of course, um, this, of course, is why crypto people look at FTX and say, this is centralized finance.
- ▶ 20:29 Toni Cowan-Brown I think eight out of the 10 teams on the grid have a giant crypto sponsor, FTX being one of them, Binance being another, which is also fascinating, but that's a whole other story for another day. 2 times in the scene