Brett Harrison: preference

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…And how would he respond? Sometimes he was nice about it, and he would say, yeah, I see where you're coming from. I do think what we've done so far has been really valuable, and we probably should do some more of it, but maybe at some point we should stop a lot of this. Sort of like, hedging language that was ultimately non confrontational, noncommittal I mean, he was a very non confrontational person. Very conflict, avoidant person within the company. And then at worst, there were other times where I brought up specific things that I thought that he was doing wrong. There was one really unfortunate time where it was the first time I visited the Bahamas in November of 21. And I'm the kind of person who, if I see something wrong at a company, it doesn't matter what company I've worked at or how junior or senior I've been. I like to go to the person most senior in. Charge and tell them this thing seems wrong to me and that's I feel like it's one of my superpowers of just like, not being afraid of just saying when something seems wrong to me. And sometimes I'm just totally wrong and don't understand the full picture, and sometimes it results in something better happening, and people will, you know, thank me for having been honest and bringing to attention something that's actually wrong. And so I said to Sam, I think you're doing way too much PR and media. First of all, it's really diluting you and the FTX brand to constantly be doing TV interviews and podcasts and flying to banking and private equity conferences. And it was so much time spent on this stuff, and also it was completely taking away from the management of the company. People would sometimes send Sam slack or signal messages and not get responses for weeks at a time. And it felt like he was spending virtually no time helping the company move forward. It was so much about image and brand and PR, and he was really angry at hearing this criticism directly. How did he react?…

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