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Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by WXLCKNO on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:32AM (#33562038)
Is this just the natural outcome of running a multi billion dollar crypto business? Do you hire so many experts and lawyers that they set this up for you as an ideal structure?

Seeing how stupid/greedy SBF was, it makes me wonder if people like him are smart enough to truly understand the need for such structure without having experts in place.

Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by chewz on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:55AM (#33562366)
You need that many companies trading with each other to create value and muddle the waters... Intangible assests and future flows passed from one entity to the other and priced at some unrealistic assumptions create/raise paper value.

This is how you blow the ballon...

Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceed... by rchaud on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:06PM (#33565216)
SBF would be a nobody without Sequoia and others throwing money at him. I'm more concerned about the judgment of monied people who are so desperate to find their own Adam Neumann, that they forgo common sense and invest based on 'feel'.