Interview: Trading Derivatives with Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX

Monika Proffitt
18 min readJun 9, 2022

(This interview was first published on September 10th, 2019. It has been edited for brevity.)

It was 2016 to 2017 when things were starting to go crazy in crypto land. Market cap was skyrocketing and volumes were running up. It was also around that time Sam Bankman-Fried decided to leave Wall Street and founded Alameda Research, a quantitative trading

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Monika Proffitt

Serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author of Blockchain 101: Fundamentals of a New Economy. Former full time artist, also writes the occasional poem, story, etc.