- Sam Bankman-Fried made a number of statements in an interview with Vox that raised eyebrows.
- A month ago I was one of the world’s greatest fundraisers,” he said. “Now I’m the fallen wreckage of one.”
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made a number of eyebrow-raising statements in a Vox reporter Kelsey Piper’s DMs over Twitter late Tuesday.
He cursed regulators when asked about the exchange’s lobbying efforts. The things that they do only make the situation worse.
After Bankman-Fried filed for bankruptcy protection, Piper messaged Bankman-Fried on Twitter. He responded and said he had DMed her. She had spoken to him on Zoom earlier this summer for a profile.
Bankman-Fried has been using Twitter to communicate mainly in bizarre rambling since last week’s problems for the company spiraled out of control. FTX quickly tweeted that Bankman-Fried had no role at FTX, FTX US or Alameda Research, and did not speak on their behalf.
A remnant of what once was.
Bankman-Fried said that he wished he had never filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but that things would be 70% fixed right now if he hadn’t.
Instead, I sat and watched as they tried to burn through everything I had worked so hard on, in shame. There is still so much to be done, Bankman-Fried said, needing just two weeks to raise $8 billion.
“That’s basically all that matters for the rest of my life,” he said. A while ago, I was a very good fundraiser. I’m the wreckage of something that’s been ruined.
