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@0xYoob@devildriver6969 Thanks, Lev! (Actually, I think everyone would have been made whole more than 2x and/or everyone could have gotten paid years earlier...)
SAM BANKMAN FRIED PICKED EVERY WINNER OF THE 2020s AND HIS LAWYERS SOLD THEM ALL AT THE BOTTOM.
If the FTX estate hadn't panic-sold its assets during bankruptcy, SBF would be sitting on a $114 billion empire today. Instead, he is watching the greatest trades of the decade from a prison cell.
The data is almost impossible to believe:
- Anthropic: $82.3 billion (165x) SBF bought an 8% stake for $500M. The estate sold it for $1.3B in 2024. Today, that stake would be worth over $80B.
- SpaceX:$15 billion (75x) A massive stake liquidated early to pay creditors.
- Solana: $5.1 billion (27x) SBF was an early backer at $8. The estate offloaded a massive chunk at $64.
- Robinhood: $4.9 billion (8x)
- Genesis Digital: $3.5 billion (3x)
The Latest "Missed" Fortune: CURSOR
In 2022, Alameda Research wrote a tiny $200,000 check for a 5% stake in the AI startup Cursor. In April 2023, the bankruptcy estate sold that entire stake back for exactly what they paid: $200,000.
Yesterday, SpaceX announced a deal to buy Cursor for $60 billion.
That "worthless" 5% stake would be worth $3 billion today. That is a 15,000x return that vanished because the lawyers wanted a quick exit.
SBF was a genius at picking generational winners and a criminal at managing their money.
The lawyers recovered $18 billion for users. If they had just held, they would be sitting on $114 billion and the most valuable venture portfolio in history.
FTX is in the middle of a brutal bank run.
John Ray files Chapter 11.
Ten minutes later, the final funding commitment arrives — enough to cover the entire shortfall. The bankruptcy can’t be undone.
Three years on: 98% of customers repaid in full, with 20% interest.
The money was never stolen. It was temporarily illiquid during a bank run, the same condition that collapsed Silicon Valley Bank in 2023.
And it begins
Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal judge its court filings contained AI hallucinations
The firm apologized to the federal judge as they had to submit multiple corrections focused around:
• Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist
• Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written
• Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
The primary team and secondary review all failed to catch these errors, meanwhile the firm's partners bill $2,000+ per hour
If Sam Bankman-Fried did nothing illegal, he might have been the best VC in history
What SBF bought vs. what it's worth today:
• Cursor: ~$200K → ~$3B (+1,499,900%)
• Anthropic: ~$499M → $82.3B (+16,400%)
• SpaceX: ~$200M → ~$15B (+7,400%)
• Solana: ~$189M → $5.1B (+2,600%)
• Robinhood: $612.5M → $4.9B (+700%)
• Genesis Digital: $1.17B → $3.5B (+200%)
Had he done nothing wrong, he'd have an estimated worth of $114,000,000,000 today
Instead he's tweeting from Federal Correctional Institution
Who was the first investor in Cursor? The GOAT investor SBF of course.
Alameda Research invested $200k to take half of the company’s $400k pre-seed in 2022.
Its stake was sold off in FTX bankruptcy proceedings in 2023 for………$200k.