Imagine the scene, waiting to see her soon in some series on Netflix or Amazon Prime (it is inevitable). A group of investors is accompanied to the headquarters of Ftx, a company in which until a month ago everyone wanted to put money. The briefing room has a glass door like in police interrogation rooms. You can see an adjacent room without being seen: it’s Sam Bankman-Fried’s office, sleeping blissfully curled up in a bean bag chair. Investors observe the young genius for a few minutes, see him wake up and then join them in the meeting room. T-shirt, shorts, flip flops, thick unkempt hair. As soon as he wakes up, the genius starts talking and in a few minutes everyone is fascinated by his vision of the financial markets and the future of cryptocurrencies and they fill him with millions of dollars.
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