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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
15 Dec 2021 Acquired FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
“In the research, I found that they grew an astonishing 10x by volume in the year 2020.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…I'm David Rosenthal. I am an angel investor based in San Francisco. We are your hosts. Today, we are telling the story of the crypto trading exchange FTX started just two and a half years ago, and today worth over $25 billion. They're by far the fastest-growing crypto exchange. In the research, I found that they grew an astonishing 10x by volume in the year 2020. I went to look if they repeated that unbelievable feat in 2021 and found out that they actually 10x'd just in the first half of 2021. So the answer is no, they didn't. They doubled.…
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