About
Entrepreneur who co-founded the once widely popular FTX crypto exchange in May of 2019. By 2022, he had a net worth of over $20 billion, making him one of the ten richest people in the world. In November 2022, FTX was forced to declare bankruptcy all but evaporating his net worth. He is known online as SBF.
Before Fame
He graduated from MIT in 2014 with a degree in Physics. After college, he founded the trading firm Alameda Research.
Trivia
During the stock market downturn of 2022, he made a very large investment in the financial trading platform Robinhood. He donated over $5 million to Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election. He was placed under house arrest in December of 2022.
Family Life
Both of his parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, have taught at Stanford University law school.
Associated With
He was interviewed by Bloomberg in 2022, during which he stated that he'd love to talk with Elon Musk.
