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Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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Re: Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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I have no idea who this is. What's the significance of this?

CEO of Alameda, one of the companies related to FTX and which just filed for bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars from alleged misuse of customer funds (ponzi scheme).

Re: Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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I have no idea who this is. What's the significance of this?

CEO of Alameda, one of the companies related to FTX and which just filed for bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars from alleged misuse of customer funds (ponzi scheme).

This doesn't explain why anyone should care about whether she does or doesn't have a Goodreads account.

I guess I'm still struggling with a question of "so what?"

Re: Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

CEO of Alameda, one of the companies related to FTX and which just filed for bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars from alleged misuse of customer funds (ponzi scheme).

This doesn't explain why anyone should care about whether she does or doesn't have a Goodreads account. I guess I'm still struggling with a question of "so what?"

There's a whole controversy brewing with her and Sam Bankman-Fried. If you look on Twitter people are digging up all kinds of questionable interviews and such from both of these folks where they basically admit and lay out in detail how they're running an alleged ponzi scheme. People are digging up all kinds of fascinating dirt.

Re: Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

CEO of Alameda, one of the companies related to FTX and which just filed for bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars from alleged misuse of customer funds (ponzi scheme).

This doesn't explain why anyone should care about whether she does or doesn't have a Goodreads account. I guess I'm still struggling with a question of "so what?"

it's funny to see these people scrambling around trying to bury themselves before someone else does it for them

i wonder how long the list of accounts that she cancelled was

Re: Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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I have no idea who this is. What's the significance of this?

She is one of the devils in nerd's clothing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/11/12/the-devil...

She was an advocate of effective altruism who seems to be part of a conspiracy to have pilfered billions of dollars from investors: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/carolineellison

But what's really interesting about her deleted Goodreads account is the last books she was in the midst of reading:

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Metropolitan Man

Re: Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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I have no idea who this is. What's the significance of this?

Her review of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco https://web.archive.org/web/20221113051430/https://www.goodr...

My very uninformed impression of how companies work is something like:

- there is a CEO, who is a guy

- there is a board, consisting of a bunch of guys who are friends with the CEO

- they all have fiduciary duties and if they fail to meet them they will get yelled at by a judge in Delaware

- ???

- shareholder value gets maximized

Re: Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

CEO of Alameda, one of the companies related to FTX and which just filed for bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars from alleged misuse of customer funds (ponzi scheme).

This doesn't explain why anyone should care about whether she does or doesn't have a Goodreads account. I guess I'm still struggling with a question of "so what?"

People have been piling on making fun of anything they can find such as her reading habits even if they're not related to the FTX/Alameda fraud.
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