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Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam Bankman-Fried is founder of Alameda Research and cofounder and former CEO of FTX.

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Email Address
sam@alameda-research.com
Founder of
Alameda Research
Alameda Research
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Serum
Serum
FTX Trading Ltd.
FTX Trading Ltd.
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SolanaInsiders
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Birthdate
March 6, 1992
Birthplace
United States
United States
Nationality
United States
United States
Location
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas
United States
United States
Educated at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards Received
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2021 Forbes 30 Under 30
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2022 Forbes 30 Under 30
Occupation
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
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Billionaire
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Chief executive officer
Invested in
Semafor, Inc.
Semafor, Inc.
Worldcoin
Worldcoin
DoNotPay
DoNotPay
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Compound Financial
Trustless Media
Trustless Media
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Causal (company)
Causal (company)
Anthropic
Anthropic

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Father
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Joseph Bankman
Former CEO of
FTX Trading Ltd.
FTX Trading Ltd.
Industry
Blockchain
Blockchain
Venture capital
Venture capital
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Finance
Known for
CEO of FTX
Mother
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Barbara Fried
Overview

Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder of Alameda Research, a Hong Kong-based private equity firm. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of FTX Trading Ltd, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange.

Early life and education

Bankman-Fried was born on March 6, 1992, in Palo Alto, California as both of his parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, were law professors at Stanford University. He has a younger brother, and they were raised by their parents with utilitarian ideals. Bankman-Fried attended Crystal Springs Uplands, a private high school in California, and graduated in 2010.

In 2010, Bankman-Fried went on to attend college at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied physics. While at MIT, he became a member of Epsilon Theta, a STEAM-focused coed fraternity. Bankman-Fried graduated with his bachelor's degree in physics in 2014.

Career and work experience

After graduating from MIT, Bankman-Fried was a trader at Jane Street, a global liquidity provider and trading firm. He worked there until 2017, when he left to found his own company, Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm. He also acted as CEO of that company until 2019.

While operating Alameda, Bankman-Fried decided to move to Hong Kong in 2018, due to the prominence of cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency-related events in the area. In April 2019, he founded FTX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. The company thrived and he eventually moved its headquarters from Hong Kong to the Bahamas with the advent of COVID-19, so it would be easier to run the company in a place with fewer restrictions than Hong Kong.

In November 2022, Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO of FTX concurrently with the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the company.He also filed for bankruptcy for Alameda Research on the same day.

Philanthropy

Bankman-Fried has been known as a philanthropist from early in his career. It is reported that he donated 50 percent of his salary to pro-animal welfare organizations while he was a trader at Jane Street. He was one of the largest CEO donors to Joe Biden in the 2020 election cycle and has donated significant sums of money to democratic-sided politics.

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An interview with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, one of the biggest donors to Joe Biden.

Theodore Schleifer

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/20/22335209/sam-bankman-fried-joe-biden-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism

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March 20, 2021

Billionaire founder of FTX reveals cryptos that will survive the next crash - Bankman-Fried (Pt.1/2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0rI10noDEA

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November 25, 2021

How Sam Bankman-Fried made $10 billion by the age of 28 | FTX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQiRA_-VAd8&pp=ugMICgJydRABGAE%3D

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April 1, 2021

How to Become a Quant at Alameda Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SozZeIQUhKk

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July 12, 2019

In Conversation With Sam Bankman-Fried

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ozjiX1E7ZA

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November 15, 2021

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