FTX

“These companies will probably at some point, if they continue to grow at the pace they're growing, could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.”

“And again, this is my personal opinion. I don't think CZ thought he was going to collapse FTX. I think he thought he was brushing Sam back. I think he was sending him a message that what you're doing is unsportsmanlike conduct, and the result of which I'm goin…”

“I'm in the process of negotiating with the bankruptcy people the repurchase of the 30% stake that Sam bought in the company”

“It wasn't a fraud issue. It was a pure governance issue. If people had an ESG filter, they'd have never done that deal ever.”

“I actually think a lot of the principles of ESG, as Mario articulated in the FTX example, actually align quite well with economic benefit and managing risk.”

“And I think the other important thing to note is that during the volatility and downturns, when you had the failure of FTX and BlockFi and Celsius, all of these blockchain services worked perfectly. I should say the good ones, like Compound, Aave, Uniswap, Mak…”

“There is more bad behavior in private markets than I think people realize. FTX, it's very public, but these companies, they're not filing always audited financials. They don't have the controls. Particularly when something starts to go bad, there's a lot of ba…”