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Going Infinite by Michael Lewis: Book of the Week: Ep 2 - An Epiphany

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Sam Bankman-Fried enters the world of high finance and has an epiphany.

Today, in Michael Lewis's eye-opening account of the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto billionaire discovers high finance & has an epiphany. Jamie Parker reads.

In Michael Lewis's eye-opening account of the meteoric rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former crypto billionaire discovers high finance and has an epiphany  Jamie Parker reads.

It was late 2021 when Lewis first met the man who had recently been declared Forbes' richest man under 30 with a little over $22 billion to his name. A year later, Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire had collapsed. After their first meeting SBF (as he is known) granted Lewis the freedom to tell his story, so he was there as the crypto wunderkind continued to amass his billions.  He was also there when it all came tumbling down, and he bore witness to the aftermath. At the same time Lewis explores the extraordinary boom in crypto currency, and the fast changing world of high stakes finance.

Michael Lewis's best known books expose the inner workings of high finance, baseball and the 2016 US presidential campaign, they include Flash Boys, The Big Short which was turned into a Hollywood blockbuster, The Blind Side, Moneyball, Liars Poker. His latest book, Going Infinite is a twenty-first-century epic of high-frequency trading and even higher stakes, of crypto mania and vast amounts of money, of hubris and downfall.

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