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How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World

Behind the Bastards

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Sam Beckman- Freed - The Beanie Baby's Billionaire

Sam Beckman- Freed was born in 1992 on the campus of Stanford University, continuing a long and proud tradition of absolutely nothing good ever coming from that hellhole. His big claim to fame was developing a proposal for an overhaul of the California tax return system that would have filled out citizens' tax returns in advance. The measure failed by one vote after heavy lobbying from Intuit attacks prep software company. He's like Mark Zuckerberg and David Dobrik's love child.

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