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| Sam Bankman-Fried / @sbf_ftx: |
[Thread] FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried apologizes, says he “fucked up” and his priority is “doing right by users”, plans to raise funds and close Alameda, and more — 1) I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: SBF told investors that Alameda owes FTX ~$10B and FTX extended loans to Alameda using customer funds, describing the decision as a poor judgment call — FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried told an investor this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
FTX US tells users to close out positions as it may halt trading in days, hours after SBF said FTX US is “100% liquid”; some Tron-linked tokens can be withdrawn — Sam Bankman-Fried said the FTX US entity's users would be able to withdraw all their funds.
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
Current and former FTX and Alameda staffers say the Bahamian operation SBF ran with housemates is full of conflicts of interest, nepotism, and lack of oversight — “The whole operation was run by a gang of kids in the Bahamas,” a person familiar with the matter told CoinDesk on condition of anonymity.| Reuters: |
Sources detail FTX's rise and fall: Changpeng Zhao's ~$100M investment in 2019, the souring Binance relationship, Alameda's series of losses in 2022, and more — On Tuesday morning, Sam Bankman-Fried, owner of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, caught his employees off-guard with a somber message.
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @gainzy222, @snarkyzk, @wublockchain, @hsakatrades, @cobie, @permequity, and @felixsalmon
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Sources: SBF invested $500M+ in Paradigm, Altimeter, Multicoin, and other VCs, including committing $200M to Sequoia; Pitchbook shows he committed $300M to K5 — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was not only a tireless fundraiser from venture capital firms including Paradigm and Sequoia Capital …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
BlockFi pauses withdrawals and asks users not to deposit to its wallet or interest accounts, saying it can't operate normally amid “lack of clarity” around FTX — BlockFi had made a deal with FTX earlier this year. — Crypto Lender BlockFi said it could not conduct business … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter's chief privacy officer, CISO, and chief compliance officer have resigned; legal now asks engineers to “self-certify” compliance with FTC rules — Twitter's privacy and security teams are in turmoil after Elon Musk's changes to the service bypassed its standard data governance processes.
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| Washington Post: |
Twitter employees are concerned by the rapid rollout of features without the security reviews required by the FTC's consent decree reached with Twitter in May — Yoel Roth had become the public face of Twitter's efforts to reassure users and advertisers the service would not become a ‘free-for-all’
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter's head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth resigned on November 10; sources: head of ad sales Robin Wheeler also resigned, but Elon Musk convinced her to stay — Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter Inc. employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion …
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Tweets: @robinw, @kurtwagner8, @caseynewton, @sarahfrier, @sarafischer, @jessicalessin, and @evacide
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk told staff that Twitter may have a “net negative cash flow” of billions in 2023 and “bankruptcy is not out of the question” — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Thursday the company may have a “net negative cash flow of several billion dollars” …
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Tweets: @parismartineau, @zoeschiffer, @sacca, @mikeisaac, @oneunderscore__, @zoeschiffer, and @amir
| The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not survive “without significant subscription revenue” and that the company needs roughly half of revenue to come from subscriptions — Elon Musk has sent his first email to Twitter employees, warning them to prepare for a “dire” economy and putting an immediate end to remote work.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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| Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon started a monthslong cost-cutting review of its unprofitable businesses, like its devices unit, which had a $5B+ operating loss in recent years — Review takes a close look at devices unit, which includes Alexa and has had an annual operating loss of $5 billion in some recent years, documents show
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
After Twitter labels select accounts as “Official”, Elon Musk says he “killed it” and an executive says the label “is still going out” as part of the new Blue — Update: Well, that was fast. The grey checks have begun to disappear following a tweet …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
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