Sam Bankman Freed - The Richest Person in Crypto Currency

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Sam bankman is one of the richest people under 30 in history. He set out to make all this money explicitly for the purpose of giving almost all of it away, and to do as much good in the world as he possibly can. In this episode, we talk about how sam became as wealthy as he has, how he got into crypto currency,. We have a brief discussion about that space. It's yet another p s a, so there's no pay wall.

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