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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Venture Bets Would Have Made Him $100 Billion Richer Had He Stayed Out Of Prison

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Before FTX collapsed, Bankman-Fried assembled a prescient portfolio brimming with home runs, including Anthropic and SpaceX. Lucky vulture investors will reap astonishing returns, as crypto’s boy wonder serves out his 25-year sentence.

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