<story><title>Bankman-Fried being invited to speak at a New York Times event alongside Yellen</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muglug</author><text>I just heard that a guy I knew committed suicide over the FTX implosion. He was a weath adviser with a bunch of his clients&amp;#x27; money tied up there.&lt;p&gt;FTX fucked with peoples&amp;#x27; livelihoods, and by extension their lives.&lt;p&gt;Edit: just to clarify, it was his decision to park his clients&amp;#x27; money there. But FTX spent a lot of money courting retail investors with slick campaigns. A superbowl ad that implied people were stupid &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to participate. Big Silicon Valley VC firms imbued SBF with the aura of a wunderkind who could do no wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Please make sure this information makes it to sentencing when Bankman-Fried’s trial concludes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bankman-Fried being invited to speak at a New York Times event alongside Yellen</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muglug</author><text>I just heard that a guy I knew committed suicide over the FTX implosion. He was a weath adviser with a bunch of his clients&amp;#x27; money tied up there.&lt;p&gt;FTX fucked with peoples&amp;#x27; livelihoods, and by extension their lives.&lt;p&gt;Edit: just to clarify, it was his decision to park his clients&amp;#x27; money there. But FTX spent a lot of money courting retail investors with slick campaigns. A superbowl ad that implied people were stupid &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to participate. Big Silicon Valley VC firms imbued SBF with the aura of a wunderkind who could do no wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wstuartcl</author><text>A wealth advisor that is directing clients to crypo has more problems than FTX.&lt;p&gt;Sorry for your loss.</text></comment>