This past Sunday, “60 Minutes” ran a feature story on the former cryptocurrency baron Sam Bankman-Fried (aka “SBF”), founder of the once high-flying crypto exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried goes on trial this week, facing multiple felony charges for various categories of fraud and money laundering. The segment was a revealing look at the inner workings of the man behind perhaps the most sudden collapse of personal wealth in the history of business: from a net worth of $20 billion to zero in a matter of days.
The story was told through an interview with best-selling author Michael Lewis, who by sheer happenstance found himself acting as Bankman-Fried’s de facto biographer and stenographer. Lewis followed the eccentric billionaire from place to place, accumulating over one hundred one-on-one interviews with the man who was once considered a candidate to become the world’s first trillionaire. The result is Lewis’s new book “Going Infinite,” an intimate look at the inner workings of a mind that was both genius and pathetically immature.
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