Date: Jun 30, 2022Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Jun302022

Exclusive: A Conversation with Wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and Founder of FTX (virtual)

Thu, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Zoom Webinar (Information to be sent to Registrants)
General PublicFinance

Description

In just three years since its founding, FTX has become one of the hottest brands in the crypto landscape, enabling its users to exchange cryptocurrency on its platform. As of last July, the company enabled over $10 billion in trading volume daily and boasted over 1 million users. FTX is the brainchild of Sam Bankman-Fried, a growing breed of effective altruists—a group of people who believe money should be donated to projects that have been shown to have the most impact in bettering the world.

Bankman-Fried, 30, is one of the faces of crypto. The Miami Heat arena bears the FTX name. With the company’s success and growth in just three years, Bankman-Fried now wants to go beyond crypto and grow FTX into a diversified trading platform.

“FTX is a profitable company,” Bankman-Fried told Bloomberg News recently. “You can look at the amount that we’ve raised over the last year or two — it’s a few billion dollars. That gives maybe a sense of where we are in terms of cash that was explicitly viewed from a potential acquisition angle.”

In the last few months, FTX has acquired stakes in IEX Group and LedgerX as part of an acquisition spree. Despite the urge to diversify, Bankman-Fried is an evangelist for crypto and believes the technology could help democratize finance and reduce poverty.

Sam Bankman-Fried will join the HBS Club of NY for a wide-ranging conversation about crypto, its future and where Bankman-Fried sees opportunities and philanthropy. Join us for this exciting conversation with one of the rising stars in technology.

Participants must register by NOON on June 29th to receive details on joining the discussion. The Zoom link will be sent out 24 hours before the event.

Please note that no refunds will be issued.

Bios

Speaker

Sam Bankman-Fried

CEO of FTX

Sam Bankman-Fried is an MIT graduate with a degree in physics who started his career in financial markets with Jane Street. He traded a variety of ETFs, futures, currencies, and equities, and designed their automated OTC trading system. After Jane Street, he founded the quantitative trading firm Alameda Research. During his time at Alameda, he and his colleagues noticed that the technology from cryptocurrency exchanges for institutional investors could be better. As a result, he created FTX in 2019, which is now the largest crypto trading exchange outside China. Beginning during his time at MIT and continuing throughout his professional career, Sam has been a believer in effective altruism in which he has dedicated his time to maximizing his earnings to affect as much positive change in the world as possible. Over the past decade, Sam has donated to initiatives that focus on animal rights, climate change and more.

Moderator

Mitchell Dong (AB ’75, OPM ‘97)

Private Investor. Entrepreneur. Cryptocurrency Trader. Savvy Investor.

Mitchell Dong runs his family’s investment office and is a hedge fund manager. He has managed hedge funds which use quantitative methods to trade uranium, electric power, gold and mutual funds. Currently he runs a cryptocurrency trading fund which does arbitrage and trend following. In the past, Mitchell was a developer of solar, hydroelectric and cogeneration power plants. Mitchell is a graduate of Harvard College majoring in economics and the OPM program at Harvard Business School. Mitchell’s family philanthropy supports the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Date Time

Date: Jun 30, 2022Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Location

Zoom Webinar (Information to be sent to Registrants)1460 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
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Price

  • 25 / General Public
  • 10 / Member/Member Guest (limit one)
  • Free / Patron Members (please contact programming@hbscny.org)
  • 20 / Alumni Non-Members

Organizer

Barrie Moskowitz & Lockie Andrews

Zoom Webinar (Information to be sent to Registrants)

1460 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036