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How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy
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Brady Dale
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A first-hand look at the extraordinary collapse of FTX, Alameda Research, and Sam Bankman-Fried
In SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy, accomplished crypto reporter Brady Dale presents an engrossing take on the spectacular and sudden implosion of FTX, Alameda Research, and their associated companies, as well as the criminal indictments of Sam Bankman-Fried and several of his associates. In the book, you'll go beyond the salacious details and tawdry gossip to grasp the real lessons to be learned from one of the most dramatic corporate failures in living memory.
The author explores: the often-confusing world of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance, offering a deep understanding of both industries; the history of Sam Bankman-Fried, what smart money players had to say about him in 2019 and 2020, and why many decentralized finance professionals considered him a "pirate" even before FTX and Alameda blew up; and what the aggressive lobbying campaigns waged by FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried reveal about the latter's motives and goals. An extraordinary account of almost unimaginable wealth, greed, and hubris, SBF is a can't-miss account of a fascinating corporate tragedy that continues to unfold to this very day.
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- By: Christopher Varelas, Dan Stone
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system, how money became our adversary, and why finding a new course is crucial to a healthy society.
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Must read
- By Craig M. Stratton on 02-08-20
By: Christopher Varelas, and others
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The Education of a Value Investor
- My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom and Enlightenment
- By: Guy Spier
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor. In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier reveals his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.
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Malk Williams does a superb job.
- By Guy Spier on 11-30-14
By: Guy Spier
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More Money Than God
- Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
- By: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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The Paul Volker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post journalist Sebastian Mallaby has garnered New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book honors for his enthralling nonfiction. Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009.
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Valiant effort but lacking analytic horsepower...
- By ND on 01-10-11
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The Behavior Gap
- Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money
- By: Carl Richards
- Narrated by: Carl Richards
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Why do we lose money? It's easy to blame the economy or the financial markets - but the real trouble lies in the decisions we make. As a financial planner, Carl Richards grew frustrated watching people he cared about make the same mistakes over and over. They were letting emotion get in the way of smart financial decisions. He named this phenomenon - the distance between what we should do and what we actually do - "the behavior gap". He found that once people understood it, they started doing much better.
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Average across the board
- By michael on 01-23-18
By: Carl Richards
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When Genius Failed
- The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- By: Roger Lowenstein
- Narrated by: Roger Lowenstein
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-nineties culture of Wall Street that made it all possible.
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When Genius Failed
- By Sean on 12-17-08
By: Roger Lowenstein
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Eat People
- An Unapologetic Plan for Entrepreneurial Success
- By: Andy Kessler
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Here's how entrepreneurs find the next big thing-and make it huge. The era of easy money and easy jobs is officially over. Today, we're all entrepreneurs, and the tides of change threaten to capsize anyone who plays it safe. Taking risks is the name of the game - but how can you tell a smart bet from a stupid gamble? Andy Kessler offers 12 surprising and controversial rules for these radical entrepreneurs.
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One of the best business books!
- By Wayne on 11-24-15
By: Andy Kessler
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The Money Formula
- Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets
- By: Paul Wilmott, David Orrell
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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The Money Formula takes you inside the engine room of the global economy to explore the little-understood world of quantitative finance, and show how the future of our economy rests on the backs of this all-but-impenetrable industry. Written not from a post-crisis perspective - but from a preventative point of view - this book traces the development of financial derivatives from bonds to credit default swaps, and shows how mathematical formulas went beyond pricing to expand their use to the point where they dwarfed the real economy.
By: Paul Wilmott, and others
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Iceland's Secret
- The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con
- By: Jared Bibler
- Narrated by: Jared Bibler
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years later. Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the pastoral country to its knees, he became the lead investigator into some of the largest financial crimes in the world. This work helped Iceland to famously become the only country to jail its bank CEOs in the wake of the 2008 crisis.
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Excellent description of Icelands finacial crash
- By CJF on 08-19-24
By: Jared Bibler
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King of Capital
- The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
- By: John E. Morris, David Carey
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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The financial establishment---banks and investment bankers, such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley---were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels, and driving the economy to the brink of disaster.
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Great Story Ruined by Monotone Reading
- By Marc on 04-23-13
By: John E. Morris, and others
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Finish Big
- How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
- By: Bo Burlingham
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem - how to handle the pressure to grow. Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem - how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated.
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Begin with the end in mind
- By D. Hartzell on 02-05-15
By: Bo Burlingham
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- John
- 05-29-23
More crypto than SBF
This book is more of a history of crypto than the story of SBF – which is what the book is advertised to be.
Dry, tedious, and boring.
When the author does talk about SBF, he can’t bring himself to criticize him, and on the rare instances where he he comes close, he follows it up with an excuse. Towards the end he puts SBF in an alternate reality, where SBF saved the world, if only he had not get caught. Pretty ridiculous.
It’s the work of a reporter, not a writer, and that’s painfully obvious from beginning to end.
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- LJK
- 07-08-23
Enter the Complex, Weird World of Crypto
In a densely packed, unconventional and sometimes snarky narrative, Brady Dale, a plugged-in business journalist with a penchant for philosophical asides and pop culture similes, reveals an intimate account of how cryptocurrency’s conspicuously unkempt Icarus, Sam Bankman-Fried, plummeted back to earth.
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- JoAnn
- 11-14-23
More than SBF and FTX
Although this is titled. "SBF", the book is more about crypto in general over since inception. I have read several books on the FTX collapse and this book allowed me to understand the technical aspects of cryptocurrency. "Number Go Up" is a discussion of cryptocurrency in the real world - the author attends cryptocurrency conferences, NFT parties where he buys a "bored ape", tries to buy McDonalds in the real world, visits countries trying to adopt cryptocurrency, and the use of cryptocurrency for criminal activity. "Going Infinite" is a biography of SBF and discussion of SBF's childhood, education, work experience and the final days of the FTX collapse. "Easy Money" is about an actor, Ben Mackenzie, who decided crypto seemed dumb and set out to learn about the topic. All of these books are great.
"SBF" is about all types of cryptocurrencies as they developed and the best explanation of the technical issues behind the FTX collapse. The book started out a bit difficult to follow as he provided a roadmap to the book with explanations of when the issue will be further discussed but the book, in the end, answers the questions. The author also explains "effective altruism" as he had attended some meetings of "EA" members before even becoming a journalist.
I would recommend this book if you are interested in the technical issues behind the scene.
Of note, none of these books even tries to explain blockchain or the coding that is involved. Which, to me, is fine because I do not have the coding skills to understand the process.
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- Savita E Eisenberg
- 11-13-23
A good read
This is the third book I’ve read about SBF, plus listening to Podcasts. I think part of the fascination is the "Why? No one can answer that but this book makes some very reasonable suggestions. I recommend it.
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- John Jackson
- 05-25-23
Terrible book. Wait for Michael Lewis's book
Most of the book isn't about FTX. It's spent explaining what crypto and investing is in such basic terms that it's insulting. What's even worse is the author defends SBF so much
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