- FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t know find out how to instruct his guard canine to kill on command, based on Michael Lewis’ new e book.
- “When Sam was in a room with the canine, it all the time felt as if some accident was ready to occur,” Lewis wrote within the e book.
- His e book on Bankman-Fried, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” was launched on Tuesday.
FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t know find out how to instruct his guard canine to kill on command, based on Michael Lewis’ biography on the fallen crypto titan.
The canine — a German shepherd named Sandor — was bought by Bankman-Fried’s dad and mom for safety causes, Lewis wrote within the e book. It had been educated to attack on command — in German.
Bankman-Fried’s dad and mom realized the attack instructions, however not the previous CEO of FTX.
“And so when Sam was in a room with the canine, it all the time felt as if some accident was ready to occur,” Lewis wrote. “It would have been very Sam Bankman-Fried to have been eaten by his personal guard canine.”
Sandor seems to be the identical 75-pound canine talked about in a Puck interview with Bankman-Fried revealed in January. Sandor seems to be the identical 75-pound canine talked about in a Puck interview with Bankman-Fried revealed in January. Already absolutely educated when the household received Sandor, the canine would attack in response to a “secret phrase,” per Forbes. The media outlet spent a day with Bankman in January when he was beneath home arrest.
Lewis’ e book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” was launched on Tuesday — the identical day Bankman-Fried’s prison fraud trial began.
Bankman-Fried faces seven fees, together with fraud and conspiracy referring to the FTX’s collapse. He has pleaded not responsible.
Crypto change FTX — which was price $32 billion in early 2022 — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 11 of the identical 12 months after a week-long liquidity disaster.
A consultant for Bankman-Fried declined to remark to Insider.
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