Before he was in charge of a cryptocurrency exchange that is accused of making up to $2 billion in customer deposits disappear, Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old former billionaire and CEO of FTX, was once a sports blogger for about five months.
The fact that this “zhlubby guy” was once a member of this noble online class is technically not breaking news, but rather a discovered tidbit within a lawsuit filed against Bankman-Fried in 2019. The then-27-year-old was accused of manipulating crypto markets leading to more than $150 million in losses to traders.