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Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries

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Post by 55555 »

ollifi wrote: post #31
AlbertCory wrote: post #11

People sometimes ask me "so are you writing a book on Twitter?" No one's yet asked the same thing about FTX, but I'm sure that's coming. This is something every agent and every producer is on top of like flies on shit. The chance for someone with no big-name access or connections of getting anywhere with it is about zero.

Apparently Michael Lewis has been following SBF for six months already[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/14/ftx-crypto-kin...

Oh my god I can't wait to read this. lol

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Post by MichaelCollins »

colpabar wrote: post #39

So this isn’t really a big story yet, is it? I’m staying at my parents’ house for thanksgiving and when I asked them about it they both had no idea what I was talking about. My mom faintly remembered something about some crypto guy or something, but “FTX” didn’t ring a bell. This was very surprising to me because they are older and watch the news on television every day. I think their schedule is fox news from 5-6, t…

This matches my experience. The only people who've heard this story yet are those who keep a finger on the pulse of either tech or crypto news.

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Post by rapsey »

runlevel1 wrote: post #38

Related: Apple is reportedly nearing a deal for the rights to Michael Lewis’ upcoming book on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX.[^1] Lewis is the author of The Big Short and Moneyball. [1]: https://deadline.com/2022/11/apple-deal-michael-lewis-book-c...

It is incredible that the guy has been shadowing SBF for months and this happens.

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

spamizbad wrote: post #25
AlbertCory wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The wheels of the law grind slowly. Look at Elizabeth Holmes. The WSJ article that started her downfall came out in 2015. And she's still walking around free (for now).

Holmes is an interesting case because she got the opposite treatment as SBF: the press started running negative stories almost immediately while the tech industry was still neutral-to-defensive.

There were a lot of softball fluff pieces on her after the allegations. There was ongoing boosterism from the "lean in" crowd who never understood the impossibility of a sophomore dropout having expertise in biology, engineering, and business administration.

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Post by MichaelCollins »

kgwgk wrote: post #40
spamizbad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holmes is an interesting case because she got the opposite treatment as SBF: the press started running negative stories almost immediately while the tech industry was still neutral-to-defensive.

“almost immediately” relative to when?

Once Bad Blood was published. It took a few years for the dam to break, but once it did the rest of the media piled on quick.

The FTX dam broke a few weeks ago and so far the media generally seems unenthusiastic about covering the story. Most people I've mentioned it to haven't heard of it yet; that's the media's fault.

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Post by shp0ngle »

Just FYI.

SBF will next week speak at New York Time conference, together with Mark Zuckerberg, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mike Pence, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Affleck, Eric Adams, and others. And yeah he is apparently still coming.

https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit#speakers

https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1595512579417378837?cxt=H...

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Post by _fat_santa »

photochemsyn wrote: post #22

Patrick Boyle's three-part (so far) Youtube series on FTX is already a pretty good miniseries on the subject. Since it's running in real-time, not everything is going to hold up, i.e. does SBF / FTX actually have $100 million in Twitter? See ongoing froth: https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-100-millio... The scale of political giving and media donating involved is certainly curious, worthy of more expo…

His dry humor absolutely kills me.

Pt1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0

Pt2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrMpk4lGjA

Pt3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hue46YwRvSc

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