On Wednesday, November 30, 2022, in the event DealBook Summit The annual New York City hosted by the New York Times was hosted by Times Magazine columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and founder and editor of DealBook. Like Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of one of the world’s leading trading boards. FTX
As you know, founder Sam Bankman-Fried FTX Responded agreed to attend the New York Times annual Dealbook talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Despite the ongoing investigation into the collapse of the exchange, FTX anyway
Of course, most of the interviewees were very excited to hear Sam Bankerman-Fried interview. According to a transcript of the full Andrew Ross Sorkin interview with SBF previously published by CoinDesk, SBF said:
“Obviously I made a lot of mistakes or things that I tried to rebuild. Of course I never tried to defraud anyone… It’s not my intention to pool money, it’s just that clients borrow money from each other, and Alameda is one of them. I am deeply surprised by the state of Alameda, pointing to another regulatory failure on my part. More importantly, I don’t want anyone to take responsibility for me.”
“The day we actually knew we had a problem was November 6th and it was the same day that we tweeted regarding FTT late on November 6th. This can be seen from the dashboard that I always keep an eye on.”
“We spend a lot of energy on compliance and licensing. This has allowed us to obtain licenses from many areas over time.”
“Everything I have is being revealed. You know, I currently only have one working credit card left and I think it probably has regarding $100,000 in my bank account. And I mean that’s everything I have.”
However, former Paypal executive and coin issuer David Marcus Libra Meta commented on the matter, saying, “I watched what SBF did in an interview and had to say I mightn’t believe what I just saw. I’m really speechless, what a distortion of reality this is! Also… at the end, the audience applauded? WTF!”