“How did this guy steal billions of dollars and now speak as a free man at a summit? Make it meaningful.” ”
That was a Twitter user @WSBChairman In reply to a late Wednesday tweet from the disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who confirmed he will be attending the New York Times’ DealBook Summit in November, where he will be interviewed by journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin.
“Cheater. I lost everything because of you,” said another Twitter user @Alexand56464660 answered SBF.
In a separate tweet said Sorkin “Nothing is taboo” when it comes to interviews with SBF. “There are many important questions that need to be asked and answered,” said the journalist.
The angry reactions sparked by tweets from both SBF and Sorkin – who also received suggestions for questions – were just a taste of the seething anger from the investment world that the former CEO, accused of mismanaging billions of dollars, would appear at the prestigious DealBook gathering of senior executives, business and cultural leaders.
The 29-year-old will join Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock BLK, +0.39%, Reed Hastings, Netflix Founder and CEO NFLX, +1.68%, Andy Jassy, AMZN from Amazon.com, + 1.00% President and CEO appear, Finance Minister Janet Yellen and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just to name a few.
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz is one of those people to say, “Why isn’t he in jail?” question as his firm doesn’t expect to recover about $77 million in cash and digital assets they put in FTX had when the entire company fell apart. “I think his day will come,” he said in an interview on Wednesday.
SBF has been accused of treating FTX as “personal fiefdom” and potentially triggering further consequences, with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao telling Bloomberg on Thursday he expects “a bit of contagion.” Crypto trading company Genesis has also been at the center of bankruptcy concerns lately.
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But those hoping to meet SBF face-to-face may be out of luck, as a New York Times spokesman told MarketWatch he is expected to “attend the interview from the Bahamas.”