Happy Tuesday, and welcome back to The Stratosphere.

“I feel terrible about what happened to all the things he’s trying to do,” Sam Bankman-Fried told me the other month when I asked him if he felt badly about how his implosion had singed his younger brother, Gabe. G.B.F. was S.B.F.’s political consigliere, and enjoyed an influence in Washington that, of course, was due in large part to his sibling. But when you live by your big brother, you die by your big brother—something that Gabe himself always understood.

Today, we go inside that dynamic. But first, a quick favor: Puck just launched its first reader survey, aiming to better understand our audience. It takes less than 5 minutes to fill out, and anyone who completes it will be entered to win free Puck merch, or an automatic upgrade to Inner Circle membership. You can find it here.

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