Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX chief executive officer Sam Bankman-Fried told employees he was exploring all options for his firm after a deal with cryptocurrency exchange Binance collapsed on Wednesday. The proposed deal between Bankman-Fried and rival Binance…

It was a stunning fall for a celebrated executive who was leading the crypto industry's charge into the mainstream of finance. Over the past two years, Sam Bankman-Fried, a 30-year-old entrepreneur, built a crypto exchange called FTX into a…

Sam Bankman-Fried was supposed to be different than the run-of-the-mill crypto types. He was this wunderkind with a preternatural gift for math. Sam Bankman-Fried was supposed to be different than the run-of-the-mill crypto types. He…