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Sam Bankman-Fried

Founder of FTX and Alameda Research; convicted of fraud in 2023.

4 biographies about them

Biographies about them 4

Unusually crowded for so recent a collapse; the books disagree sharply on whether he was a fraud or a fool.

Michael Lewis · 2023 · Written with months of access before and after the collapse; criticised as too sympathetic.
Zeke Faux · 2023 · Wider crypto-bubble reporting with FTX at the centre.
Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman · 2023 · Includes the authors' own interview with Bankman-Fried.