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Brett Harrison: uncertainty

13 Mar 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out

“I don't know. I think that's up for a professional with credentials that I don't have.”

— Brett Harrison

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Speaker
Brett Harrison
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
13 Mar 2023
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…If you had to yes, most likely cause of that, what would you say? I don't know. I think that's up for a professional with credentials that I don't have. But I do think it was probably a combination of everything. The lack of sleep, the stress he probably was under, not just being in his role, but having kept this secret for so many years around. Whatever was happening with the holes in the exchange and the lying he was doing to his own employees, to investors, to auditors, maybe that weighed on him. Maybe had something to do with his medications and he had just had to be just a plain deterioration in mental state or some kind of personality disorder or a different kind of anxiety disorder. I really don't know. Maybe a mixture of everything. Yeah, got it. You said you gave him a sort of ultimatum letter where you said, unless you change these things, I'm resigning. What were the things you asked that be changed in that letter?…

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