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Brett Harrison: belief

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

“When I got to FTX, I think over the course of my time there, I saw someone who was very different than that person I remembered.”

— Brett Harrison

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

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…You had a thread sort of boiling down this experience on Twitter and one of the things you pointed out there is that you saw the sort of symptoms of sort of mental health issue or addiction issue at the time there. Are you referring to the sort of management mishaps and bad decision making or was there something more that made you come to this conclusion? I think it was more than that. When I knew Sam, when he was 21, 22 years old, he was like a happy, healthy looking kid who was very positive, very talkative, got along super well with his cohort of traders. The people on the desk really liked him. When I got to FTX, I think over the course of my time there, I saw someone who was very different than that person I remembered. I think he was angrier, seemed more depressed, more anxious. He couldn't get through a conversation without shaking his leg. Street.…

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