Lex Fridman Podcast

#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Dec 9, 2022

03:51:31

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The Importance of Self-Teaching

01:30

The Freedom to Say No

01:31

The Scam of Sean Ellis

02:07

The Benefits of Tracking Your Time

01:23

Introduction

3min

Ate Sleep.com - Slash Lex

4min

Do You Like Your Coffee to Reverberate Deeply Through the Worst of Human Nature?

2min

SPF and FTX: Sam Bankman-Fried

4min

The Stablecoin Death Spirale

3min

FTX-Alameda Research - Is FTT a Good Investment?

3min

FTX Assets Are Fine, We Have Enough Money to Cover All Withdrawals

4min

What You've Learned From the Insider Interviews

3min

Alameda and FTX Insiders

4min

10.

What's the Eight Billion?

3min

11.

Is He Incompetent, Insane or Evil?

2min

12.

I'm a Progressive Wounded Billionaire Who Wants to Give It All Away

3min

13.

Is Jeff Bezos a Shark?

2min

14.

Cryptocurrency Market: Who Suffers the Most?

3min

15.

Do You Think This Really Damaged Cryptocurrency Trust?

4min

16.

SPF - It's Never Enough

2min

17.

Is There a Blind Spot of Our Society?

2min

18.

Effective Altruism

3min

19.

Is There a Strong Ideology Behind Democracies?

3min

20.

FTX, SPF - What Do You Hope For?

2min

21.

Should I Commit Fraud?

3min

22.

Is There a Way to Redistribute Funds?

2min

23.

I Accidentally Send a Transaction Somewhere, I Need My Money Back

2min

24.

Should Influencers Be Penalized?

2min

25.

The Scale of Harm Depends on the Field You're In, Right?

2min

26.

Is Dan Friedberg the Chief Regulator?

2min

27.

Do You Think It Was Criminal?

2min

28.

Interviewing a Fraudster?

5min

29.

Are You Still Thinking of Interviewing Lex?

2min

30.

I'd Like to Grill the Shit Out of Sam, but Not Investigative

3min

31.

How Do You Delegate Responsibility for Failures?

3min

32.

Is There a Way to Avoid the Record on Repeat?

2min

33.

I Uncovered a Billion Dollar Fraud

3min

34.

Cryptocurrency

3min

35.

Bitcoin Maximists

1min

36.

Vs Code, SpaceMax, and a Lot of Other Tools.

2min

37.

Bitcoin

2min

38.

Is the Blockchain Going to Include Cryptocurrencies?

3min

39.

Is Vaporware a Real Thing?

4min

40.

Is the New York Times a Wolfpack of One or Small?

2min

41.

What's Your Source of Mental Strength Through All This?

2min

42.

Is There So Few Journalists Like You?

2min

43.

Edward Snowden and the Whistleblowers

2min

44.

Do You Ever Think About Going After Other Centers of Power?

2min

45.

Is There a Tension to Staying to One Side?

3min

46.

How to Be a Good Journalist

2min

47.

The Suspended Wearing Batman

5min

48.

The Multi-Level Marketing Scheme

4min

49.

Multi-Level Marketing Knife Selling

2min

50.

The Problem With Fraud Is That You Have to Double Down

2min

51.

What Does It Mean to Be a Good Man in the 21st Century?

3min

52.

Is This Really a Scam?

4min

53.

Husser's University

3min

54.

Is There a Difference Between a Free Course and an Educational Product?

3min

55.

I Believe in You. I Believe in You. Yes.

4min

56.

The World's Influencer Scam

5min

57.

The Basic Idea Behind Influencer Crypto Promotions

2min

58.

Are You Getting a Platform?

3min

59.

Do You Have Fuck You Money?

3min

60.

YouTube Analytics - I've Learned Analytics, I Understand Retention.

2min

61.

I've Never Been Good at Handling That

2min

62.

The Numbers, All of That Matters

2min

63.

The One Mistake to Make About Jimmy Is to Map Jimmy's Philosophy on Every Genre

2min

64.

How to Find the Most Interesting People

2min

65.

We've Done Weeds, I'm Building Up, I Want to Find People That Nobody Knows

1min

66.

High Ticket Sales - I'll Teach You to Sell for $50,000 Instead of a Dollar

5min

67.

What Have You Learned From Exposing Dan Lok?

2min

68.

How to Avoid Become a Guru?

2min

69.

How Does Coffee Find the Strength to Maintain His Integrity?

2min

70.

Donate All Everything, Support Coffeezilla. It's a Really Important Human Being

4min

71.

Are You Punching Down a Grifter Light?

4min

72.

What's the Process of an Investigation?

3min

73.

You're Putting That Signal Out There

3min

74.

The Journalist and the Murderer

4min

75.

The Disincentive to Screw People Over

2min

76.

Is Elon Just Opening the Door to a Journalist?

2min

77.

Should I Be on Twitter?

3min

78.

Twitter Files Release Is Not Historic

2min

79.

Is There Any Other Platform That Allows for the Viral Spread of Ideas?

2min

80.

How to Have a Productive Day?

2min

81.

Do You Ever Track Your Time Live?

2min

82.

How to Do Better Work Late at Night

2min

83.

Social Interactions Are More Intimate and Intense

2min

84.

How Do You Have Trouble Trusting Human Beings?

2min

85.

All of Us Are Capable of Good and Evil

3min

86.

Do You Have Advice for High School Students?

2min

87.

How to Be Fearless of Failure in the Face of a Wide Audience

2min

88.

Do I Want to Suck in an Open Mic?

4min

Coffeezilla is a journalist and investigator on YouTube who exposes financial frauds, scams, and fake gurus. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Coffeezilla’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Coffeezilla
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:04) – Coffee
(08:13) – SBF and FTX
(22:54) – $8 billion
(32:01) – Evil vs incompetence
(41:57) – Key lessons from FTX collapse
(55:15) – Should SBF go to jail?
(1:03:02) – Role of influencers and celebrities
(1:07:30) – How FTX covered up fraud
(1:11:26) – Interview with SBF
(1:26:29) – SafeMoon fraud
(1:32:41) – Bitcoin
(1:43:20) – Psychology of investigating fraud
(1:52:26) – Investigating politics and corruption
(1:59:39) – Coffeezilla origin story
(2:04:19) – MLM marketing scams
(2:11:58) – Andrew Tate and Hustlers University
(2:29:40) – Save the Kids crypto scandal
(2:36:59) – Money and fame
(2:44:03) – MrBeast
(2:50:26) – Fake gurus and Get-Rich-Quick schemes
(3:09:45) – Process of investigation
(3:22:31) – Twitter Files release
(3:31:36) – Time management and productivity
(3:43:36) – Advice for young people

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

The Importance of Self-Teaching

The Freedom to Say No

The Scam of Sean Ellis

The Benefits of Tracking Your Time

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