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Happy Wednesday, and welcome back to Dry Powder.
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It’s said that the real treasure of any adventure is the friends you make along the way, but in the case of Anthony Scaramucci, aka The Mooch, and his recent adventure-cruise to the Bahamas, that treasure included not only a new friend—the 30-year-old FTX crypto kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried, aka S.B.F.—but also very real treasure, in the form of a $45 million-dollar investment from FTX’s venture arm into the general partner of Scaramucci’s hedge fund of funds, SkyBridge.
So I called up The Mooch to ask him how the partnership came about. Our discussion about the deal, the future of crypto, and, of course, Donald Trump, is below.
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Bill
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