Brett Harrison: commitment

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…And when he said that, he was still at a sort of like peak of hype, so to speak. Right, absolutely. So, I mean, did the idea forming Architect have already had that idea by this point? Yeah. Knowing that I was going to leave, I started thinking what I was going to do next and thought, well, if I think I can run a company better than Sam, I should put my money where my mouth is and start a company. But I had this, a couple of. Ideas and they had this particular idea for Architect and it was starting to really form kind of towards the end of my time at FTX, but I hadn't started anything. And so finally I left FTX and then took a little bit of time off and then started to talk to investors about maybe raising some money for starting this company. And there were a few investors that basically said like, do you have Sam's blessing to do this? Why do I need Sam's blessing? I've resigned, I don't work there anymore. They said, we really would feel more comfortable if we could talk to Sam first. And kind of like, you know, make sure things are okay and kind of figure out what he's doing, find out if he wants to invest too before we kind of talk to you further. And it was impossible to escape that like the Sam kind of hype bubble. Even having left the company. Why do you think they were so concerned about were they trying to invest in FTX in the future?…

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