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s.b.f.

The Lost Gospel of S.B.F.

New revelations illuminating the world-changing ambitions, aborted blueprints, utopian projects, and democracy-transforming money-bombs emanating from S.B.F., Inc., before the crypto billionaire’s house of cards came crashing down.
Theodore Schleifer • November 23, 2022
Theodore Schleifer • November 18, 2022
The Bankman-Fried Mystique
S.B.F.
A clear-eyed assessment of the past and future of the crypto-political-philanthropic machine, some two weeks after his scandal erupted.
Theodore Schleifer • November 15, 2022
Inside the S.B.F. Blast Radius
Sam Bankman-Fried
The fate of Sam Bankman-Fried is being closely tracked at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, and by the dozens of allied political groups that are either racing to distance themselves from his surname or to find their next check.
S.B.F.
Eriq Gardner • November 14, 2022
The S.B.F. Bankruptcy Tea Leaves
FTX anticipated getting hit with an avalanche of lawsuits and likely filed for Chapter 11 early to pause the mayhem. This peace of mind will only last so long.
Sam Bankman-Fried
William D. Cohan • November 13, 2022
Was FTX a Lehman or an Enron?
Wall Street comes to terms with a generational financial tragedy.
Elon Musk
Baratunde Thurston • November 13, 2022
Musk Fast and S.B.F. Things
A mantra of an age, as emblemized by the Zuckerberg generation of Silicon Valley megastars, meets its fitting conclusion with extraordinary speed in a week.
Sam Bankman-Fried
Theodore Schleifer • November 11, 2022
The S.B.F. Pandemic
The Bankman-Fried industrial complex is imploding, with massive turmoil brewing for the donor who was seen as the Democratic Party’s next great hope. Does all of that money just disappear?
Elon Musk
William D. Cohan • November 9, 2022
Sorrell’s Elon Advice & Trump’s Financial Ankle Bracelet
The latest inside chatter on Wall Street about, among other things, fixing Twitter, Trump’s deal-making handcuffs, and the S.B.F. postmortem.
Elon Musk
William D. Cohan • October 2, 2022
Elon’s Hollywood Ending
Musk’s texts, which include a startling dismissive exchange about Sam Bankman-Fried, reveal why he needs Ari Emanuel to save him from himself. Plus updates on Cathie Wood’s latest investment scheme and the potential resurrection of Credit Suisse’s investment bank.
the mooch & SBF
William D. Cohan • September 21, 2022
The Odd Couple: S.B.F., The Mooch & A Crypto Love Story
The financial feel-good tale about how The Mooch, aka Anthony Scaramucci, turned the prospect of a dreaded day on a Caribbean cruise into lunch with S.B.F., aka the billionaire crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, and walked away with an opportunistic and timely multi-million-dollar investment into SkyBridge Capital.