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Richard Lowe
@lionheart1
Tyra Banks and will.i.am and all the rest of the world’s other most influential people were treated to hastily prepared remarks delivered by a not entirely sober FTX employee named Adam Jacobs, who was bewildered to be standing in for Sam. “I’m like, What is the head of payments doing giving this speech?” said Jacobs. “Why am I drinking with will.i
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Sherman Lim
@sherman
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
As a legal matter, at 4:30 in the morning on Friday, November 11, 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried DocuSigned FTX into bankruptcy and named John Ray as FTX’s new CEO. As a practical matter, Sullivan & Cromwell lined up John Ray to replace Sam as the CEO of FTX, and then John Ray hired Sullivan & Cromwell as the lawyers for the massive bankruptcy.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Bryan Brinson
@beb
Convinced by Progressives, the spiritual heirs of the People’s Party, that the first bill was not sufficient, Roosevelt sent up another. “I ask the Congress for specific legislation relating to the mortgage and other forms of indebtedness of the farmers of the nation,” he said. The proposed legislation was revolutionary in concept; it would use fed
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
They told the story of how KPMG partners resolved $21 billion in conflicting financial claims, which laid the groundwork for the release of fifty-two American hostages from Iran in 1981.