Brett Harrison: belief

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…What did you make of his press tour in the aftermath? Why did he do it and what was your impression of it? I'm not going to speculate what's inside Sam's head. I think Sam had built up his empire through bartley his control over media. And he did that by being available all the time and being ostensibly open and honest with him all the time and probably thought, why can't the same strategy work now? And maybe I can sway public opinion. If I can sway public opinion, maybe I can sway regulators and law enforcement. And it turns out that is definitely not true. So I don't really know. It could just be an addiction to the media. He couldn't stand people talking about him and him not being part of the conversation. Yeah. And I guess the earlier account you gave of his day long media cycles kind of lends credence to that mentality. I have a question about the future of the people who are at FTX. There's many different organizations who have had their alumni go on to have really incredible careers in technology. Famously, PayPal had a mafia, so called mafia, where they wanted to found YouTube with Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla. So many other companies came out of the people who came out of PayPal. And Bern Hobart has this interesting theory. The reason that happens is when a company exits too fast, you still have these people who are young and ambitious in the company who go then go on to do powerful things with the network and the skills they've accumulated. Do you think that there will be an FTX mafia?…

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