Going Infinite with Michael Lewis: the story of Sam Bankman-Fried

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Story hound Michael Lewis is back with a new book that charts the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, once the world's youngest billionaire. A journalist once said that they would read a history of the stapler if Michael Lewis wrote it, and he delivers his most compelling story yet (office stationery absent). Well versed in the world of finance, the Moneyball and Big Short author was granted unparalleled access to SBF, the crypto tycoon who said he wanted to give away his money to good causes. Then - in November 2022 - his company collapsed. Michael tells us what it’s like to write a book where your protagonist is arrested halfway through, why he never wanted to write about cryptocurrency and what his time with Sam Bankman-Fried taught him—and should teach us.

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Michael Lewis, Author and Journalist

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0:00.0	This is reasons to be cheerful with Ed Miliband and Jeff Lloyd.
0:12.0	Hello! Hello how's re-entries? Ednauband and Jeff Lied. Hello?
0:14.0	Hello, how's reentry?
0:15.0	A reentry into conversation with you?
0:18.0	Into the rest of the world after the Labour Party conference.
0:21.0	I mean it's like leaving a sort of big brother house.
0:23.6	Do you know what I mean?
0:24.6	Tell us about your best bits.
0:26.0	Diary room.
0:27.0	Um, well I don't know. It's sort of strange because you end up in just this sort of
0:31.2	conference bubble. Right. We were getting a taxi to the
0:34.0	station and the taxi driver said, so has the Tory conference happened or is that
0:37.6	next week? And I was sort of reminded actually most people are not paying any
0:41.7	attention to these conferences.
0:43.2	Anyway, my 30th year as I said last week.
0:46.2	Did you get a commemorative plate or anything?
0:48.2	God the commemorative plate obviously got forgotten.
0:51.8	But anyway I did lots of selfies, lots of nice comments about the
0:54.7	podcast from people. Has your selfie technique changed over the years? I think they
1:00.1	didn't have selfies when I first went to live buddy conference.
1:03.2	It was someone with a box brownie.
1:04.8	Honestly, I mean, maybe there's a book to be written about the history of the
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