3min chapter

Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

Why Big Tech's Jobs Bubble Burst. Plus, SBF's Scandal Deepens.

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

Venture Capitalists Get Paid to Invest Other People's Money

Alameda and FTX are giving financial statements to their investors. And those statements have numbers in them that are making these investors think that this is a good place for them to put tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. But there are other people looking at different financial statements coming out of FTX and Alameda that are saying that this is completely unworkable.

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