{"id":15142,"date":"2022-11-17T21:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=15142"},"modified":"2022-11-17T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T05:05:22","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-ftx-interview-and-business-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-interview-and-business-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried FTX Interview And Business Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this intriguing interview on the site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/23462333\/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy\">VOX <\/a>where one of its workers got to interview Sam Bankman-Fried and his views when it came to running FTX and how he feels now.  It was kind of alarming as to the things he admitted to lying about in an effort to get ahead. Unless he later claims that it wasn\u2019t him that wrote this, the first few bits seems to imply that he said a lot of things for PR purposes such a when talking to regulators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15144\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-interview-and-business-lies\/sig1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"737,729\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Alan Yu&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668687770&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sig1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig1-300x297.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"729\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig1.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig1-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There then was  lot of talk about how every company is essentially in it for themselves per se, there are even remarks which sounded like he knew what to say to get ahead.  For example, when it comes to social issue topics it states here he apparently said \u201cby this dumbcane we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15145\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-interview-and-business-lies\/sig10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig10.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"732,641\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Alan Yu&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668688144&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sig10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig10-300x263.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"641\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig10.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sig10-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To a certain extent you would expect a lot of businesses would be doing that for PR purposes versus genuinely supporting a cause as an example.  But it\u2019s still remarkable to hear people actually say it.  Just the dark side of the business world I suppose when it comes to many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this intriguing interview on the site VOX where one of its workers got to interview Sam Bankman-Fried and his views when it came to running FTX and how he feels now. It was kind of alarming as to the things he admitted to lying about in an effort to get ahead. 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