How Sam Bankman-Fried Sportswashed an $8 Billion Crypto Fraud, Starring Tom Brady and Steph Curry
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The FTX founder was a "martian" to the sports world. Why did he spend so much on arena naming rights and superstar endorsements? And how the hell did SBF become friends with TB12? Authors Michael Lewis (Going Infinite) and Zeke Faux (Number Go Up) witnessed the rise and fall of a crypto king. Now we can do the postmortem: “Moneyball, on steroids, gone wrong.”
This episode originally aired November 21, 2023.
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| 1:02.7 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 1:04.8 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 1:08.9 | He should have said, Tom, I paid you for 20 hours. |
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| 1:46.6 | Okay, so I just got to dive right in here because I believe that today's story has been incredibly undercover in the world of sports, specifically, which is criminal, as it were. |
| 1:54.7 | This is the story of Sam Bankman-Fried. |
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