{"id":116159,"date":"2023-10-21T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=116159"},"modified":"2023-10-27T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:28:09","slug":"how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Rich? Michael Lewis Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did Sam Bankman-Fried get rich? What drove him to make money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Bankman-Fried quickly became one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. Biographer Michael Lewis details how Bankman-Fried found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/achieving-financial-success\/\">financial success<\/a> in his first job at Jane Street Capital and his first two companies\u2014Alameda Research and FTX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn how Sam Bankman-Fried became wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Sam Bankman-Fried Got Rich<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>How did Sam Bankman-Fried get rich? He found quick success in his Wall Street job right out of school. Then, he struck out on his own to build a financial empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jane Street Capital<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from MIT, Bankman-Fried accepted a full-time offer at Jane Street and worked there for three years. Lewis notes that Bankman-Fried was exceptional at his job: His superiors ranked him the best trader in his class, and at the end of his third year he was poised to earn a bonus of $1 million. Further, Bankman-Fried\u2019s superiors told him that in 10 years, he could expect to be earning, at minimum, $15 million per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, cryptocurrencies were booming. Bankman-Fried realized that he could likely earn (and thus give) substantially more\u2014by his estimation, potentially $1 million a day\u2014by trading in the inefficient crypto market. For this reason, Bankman-Fried left Jane Street in 2017 to start his own quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/sam-bankman-fried-alameda-research\/\">Alameda Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alameda Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Lewis, Bankman-Fried\u2019s empire began with Alameda Research, the quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that Bankman-Fried started upon leaving Jane Street Capital. As Lewis relates, <strong>Bankman-Fried grew Alameda Research from a small group of effective altruists to a firm generating upwards of a billion dollars in annual profit by 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alameda\u2019s beginning wasn\u2019t seamless, however. Lewis writes that, although Bankman-Fried had convinced wealthier effective altruists to loan him $170 million, by February 2018, the trading system that he had implemented was losing half a million dollars <em>daily<\/em>. Moreover, tensions started to mount with his employees\u2014a small group of 20 effective altruists\u2014as Bankman-Fried refused to take their concerns seriously, even playing video games during key one-on-one meetings with his team. These tensions culminated in April of 2018 when his entire management team and half his employees quit in protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewis reports that, with nobody left to challenge him, Bankman-Fried made the bold decision to turn on <em>Modelbot<\/em>, an automated trading program that exploited international cryptocurrency price disparities to earn quick profits. Modelbot might, for example, notice that Bitcoin was selling for $5,000 in the US and $5,100 in Taiwan, and automatically purchase it in the US and sell it in Taiwan to guarantee a profit. Ultimately, Modelbot was a massive success: Alameda made a profit of $30 million in 2018, even after the initial investors withdrew most of their funds when Bankman-Fried\u2019s entire management team quit. And, as Lewis relates, these profits grew larger over time, with Alameda making $100 million in 2019 and $1 billion in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ftx\">FTX<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Alameda Research eventually became wildly successful, as of 2018, Bankman-Fried didn\u2019t believe it was earning enough money for effective altruism\u2014of its $30 million profit that year, Alameda had to pay the majority to former investors, taxes, and severance packages, leaving only $1.5 million to donate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/effective-altruism-causes\/\">effective altruism causes<\/a>. Lewis writes that, consequently, <strong>Bankman-Fried decided to open FTX, an international cryptocurrency exchange, in April 2019 to earn even more money.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With FTX, Bankman-Fried managed to develop another company that was on a similar scale to Alameda Research. In both 2020 and 2021, FTX earned over a billion dollars annually in revenue, becoming the world\u2019s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the process. In 2021, Bankman-Fried even raised $2.3 billion from venture capitalists in exchange for a 6% stake in FTX, suggesting that FTX was then worth around $40 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Sam Bankman-Fried get rich? What drove him to make money? Sam Bankman-Fried quickly became one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. Biographer Michael Lewis details how Bankman-Fried found financial success in his first job at Jane Street Capital and his first two companies\u2014Alameda Research and FTX. 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