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It helps that in January, her son was contacted by the entity overseeing the disbursement of FTX client funds and told that he would be refunded the full amount he was owed. "I am writing to convey my hope that Sam Bankman-Fried will be given a sentence in the range of 70 mo...
Today’s power-monopoly that the “Founding Fathers” couldn’t foresee and avoid was the takeover of the US government by corporate industry (through re-election bribes and threats) and the simultaneous government takeover of asset control by strong-arming the largest market participants with the...
Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and partner in the juggernaut venture capital firm A16Z wrote a seminal blog post titled: “The Only Thing That Matters“, In this post, he introduced the term “product-market-fit” (PMF). As the blog’s title suggests, PMF is the paramount concer...
Yesterday we released the Brian Hyndman video for The Path to Electronic Trading video series. As I interviewed Brian I was impressed by his story and how at the beginning of his career, our careers had parallels. We were both registered representatives, me in futures, he in equities. Be...
FTX did indeed have a good yearbut is sitting at #28 for spot markets and #6 for derivatives at the time of writing, making this prediction a fail. Score: Fail Jacob Horne, Coinbase Coinbase Product ManagerJacob Hornehad several accurate predictions, saying, “if 2018 was the year of st...
and Zhao was penalized to pay $50 million. The Department of Justice had sought 36 months of jail time for Zhao; however, per the judge, there were a number of mitigating factors, including his cooperation during the trial, that led to reduced punishment. Binance...
Behind the curtain at One Buc Palace, it seems Tom Brady looks like a long-term investment at quarterback. Consider how The Goat was described by head coach Todd Bowles yesterday. Brady was painted as unique among NFL veteran players — and not because he was born in 1977. “He’s stil...
Livon lost her train of thought as a middle-aged woman sat down across from us. “That person’s dead person just came into my head,” she said. “What was I saying?” A career in sales eventually transformed into intuitive corporate coaching. ...
'I'm a better person than I was this time last year, for instance, and I would like to keep that trajectory going.' The breakdown of his marriage gave him 'a lot of cause for reflection'. 'I look back on bits of my life and I go, "Well, I could have done that better....