Effective altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving”
Effective altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving”
Expected IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI are set to mint a new generation of philanthropists wedded to ‘effective giving’
Despite the fallout from SBF's political donations, crypto super PAC Fairshake raised $203M, more than others, like runner-up Koch Industries, which raised $26M
I've always wondered when the tech industry which makes so much money and has so much to lose from poor regulation would start lobbying at scale. … X: Alex Sammon / @alex_sammon : Something truly insa...
Sources: Apple spent $5M on the film rights for Michael Lewis' book about Sam Bankman-Fried; at least eight Hollywood projects on SBF are in the works so far
Peter Kiefer / The Ankler :
A look at Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022, and the FTX deal for a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022
and snowballed beginning in 2018 after Scaramucci, back from Washington, hired a friend from Harvard Law School who's been behind the money-losing push into crypto. https://www.bloomberg.com/... @prof...
Inside FTX's final hours, described by employees, chat logs, and Sam Bankman-Fried: panic selling assets, trying to raise funds, SBF's silence, and bankruptcy
In January, I walked up the front steps of a single-storey, grey-shingled house in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Stanford University.
A look at Modulo Capital, a mysterious multi-strategy hedge fund founded in 2022 and based in Albany in The Bahamas, which received $400M from Alameda Research
Tracy Wang / CoinDesk : Tweets: @smtuffy , @hsakatrades , @founderannie , @fxmacro , @mattwalshinbos , @0x_tracy , @jcoviedo6 , @hsakatrades , and @smtuffy Tweets: Sean Tuffy / @smtuffy : SBF launder...
An attempt to understand how much real-world money was lost by SBF and FTX, a key question for the SEC, suggests only a fraction of crypto's peak $3T value
Paul J. Davies / Bloomberg :
A spreadsheet SBF used in November lists nearly 500 alleged VC investments by Alameda, including in Circle, Genesis, Sky Mavis, Paxos, StarkWare, and Anchorage
A spreadsheet SBF used in November claims nearly 500 alleged VC investments by Alameda, including in Circle, Genesis, Sky Mavis, Paxos, StarkWare, and Anchorage
A look inside Sam and Caroline's grab-bag of crypto, etc. — As well as running a crypto exchange that didn't exchange crypto …