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The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The EA Movement and Sam Bankman-Freed

When FDX collapsed and Sam got arrested, he was quick to put out a statement of outrage. PNSBF met back at MIT when Sam was an undergrad. McCaskill convinced him that he could maximize his impact in humanitarian causes by earning to give. When Sam ultimately launched Alameda Research, it was an EA project from the start.

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