The Lost Gospel of S.B.F.

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If you’re new to this private email, I’ve covered the rise of Sam Bankman-Fried closely over the last few years, and now I’m covering the fall closely, too.

So I’ve been working the phones and talking to sources from San Francisco to Washington to Nassau to get the latest news nuggets on the political fallout from Sam Bankman-Fried’s implosion. Today, I have a collection of newsy anecdotes that will help you conjure the counterfactual I’ve been asked a lot recently: What could have been?

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Teddy

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The Lost Gospel of S.B.F.

New revelations illuminating the world-changing ambitions, aborted blueprints, utopian projects, and democracy-transforming money-bombs emanating from S.B.F., Inc., before the crypto billionaire’s house of cards came crashing down.

TEDDY SCHLEIFER

Over the last few months, before FTX filed for bankruptcy and its 30-year-old founder admitted to being a fraud, aides to Sam Bankman-Fried began thinking bigger than just their quotidian work of preventing the next pandemic. The crypto king was at the height of his powers, with a $20 billion net worth and seemingly everyone in Washington begging for an introduction. And so quietly, in private conversations that made their way to me, S.B.F. aides hatched a venture to tackle not just pandemics, but all of the great challenges of the day...

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