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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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Tweets: @paoloardoino, @cz_binance, @tier10k, @reptomemmer, @unusual_whales, @deitaone, @aeyakovenko, @paoloardoino, @autismcapital, @danielsloeb1, @ercwl, @zhusu, @deitaone, and @tier10k
| 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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| 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positions as it may halt trading in days, hours after SBF said FTX US is “100% liquid”; some Tron-linked tokens can be withdrawn — Sam Bankman-Fried said the FTX US entity's users would be able to withdraw all their funds.
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Tweets: @justinsuntron, @genesistrading, @justinsuntron, @ftx_official, @tackettzane, @ftx_official, @sbf_ftx, @ftx_official, @lawmaster, @dogetoshi, @ftx_official, @tree_of_alpha, @cigawrettepacks, @iamdcinvestor, @simondixontwitt, @statelayer, @defiyst, @fiskantes, @dogetoshi, @dogetoshi, @ki_young_ju, and @justinsuntron
| 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.
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New York Times. Tweets: @sbf_ftx, @hsakatrades, @astro__magic, @adamscochran, @emergemarkets, @brianroemmele, and @coindesk
| 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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Bloomberg, The Information, The Block, The Verge, CoinDesk, Forbes, Cryptonews, and The Information
Tweets: @cz_binance, @gainzy222, @snarkyzk, @wublockchain, @hsakatrades, and @cobie
| 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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Deadline, Bloomberg, and MobileSyrup
Tweets: @parismartineau, @zoeschiffer, @sacca, @mikeisaac, @oneunderscore__, and @zoeschiffer
| 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: |
Source: Twitter's head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth and head of ad sales Robin Wheeler resigned on November 10 — Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter Inc. employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility if it doesn't start generating more cash …
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @kurtwagner8, @sarahfrier, @evacide, @sarafischer, and @jessicalessin
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @edzitron, @longshorttrader, @gwestr, @msuiche, @brianbrackeen, @valuehao, @derekmyoung, and @jetjocko
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
In his first email to Twitter staff, Elon Musk warns of “difficult times ahead” and bans remote work, saying employees must be in the office 40+ hours per week — New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time late Wednesday to prepare them for …
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| Bryce Elder / Financial Times: |
Untangling FTX's extremely complex corporate structure, which could pose a problem for liquidators and law enforcement, as the crypto exchange faces bankruptcy — Relationship status: it's complicated — With crypto exchange FTX short $8bn and hurtling towards bankruptcy … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
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Tweets: @whale_alert, @tier10k, @pentosh1, and @whale_alert
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: |
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Tweets: @mshannahmurphy, @nandoodles, @justinhendrix, @oneunderscore__, and @sarafischer
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
| 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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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
AMD announces its fourth-generation Epyc Genoa chips, based on the Zen 4 architecture, with up to 96 cores and DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and Compute Express Link support — Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim — AMD's status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel's wake has been upended.
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