FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Wants You to Believe He's Just an Idiot Boy Genius
“When you read the stories, it sounds like a bunch of kids who were on Adderall having a sleepover party,” Sorkin said to laughter from the“Look, I screwed up. I was CEO. I was the CEO of FTX. And, I say this again and again, that.... that means I had a responsibility, that I was responsible ultimately for us doing the right things. I mean, we didn’t. We messed up big,” Bankman-Fried said, his head hanging low.
“Your parents are law professors. What did you tell them when all of this happened?” Sorkin asks at one point.Putting aside the vague phrasing in a line like “when all of this happened,” for a second, who gives a shit what SBF’s parents think of the situation? Try to imagine literally any other person accused of criminal-level impropriety with customer funds getting asked a softball question more in line with junior high gossip.
Even SBF’s repeated drinks of some canned beverage helped created the subtle image that this was a juvenile who couldn’t really be held responsible for his actions. And it’s hard not to imagine that impression was deliberate, much like the rest of his slovenly persona.The interview even ended with a round of applause for SBF from the audience—people who reportedly paid over $2,000 a head for the chance to attend the conference in New York.
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