Sam Bankman-Fried: uncertainty

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…And you're looking at 10% to 20% here. Right, and just blew it out of the water. I don't want to say this would have made a lot of money compared to the total amount of money that a top trading firm would make. I would not believe that statement. But I do think that in terms of percentages, I'd never seen anything like it before. One percent, I don't know that I'd ever done a trade good by 1% before in my life on anything. Maybe I had some weird, tiny, illiquid [...], which was like, holy shit, guys, this trade is good by 1%. They're like, yeah, it's $38. Congrats, Sam. So yeah, the spreads here were just unheard of if true. But of course, maybe they weren't true. Maybe it's all fake data. I don't know, or at least I didn’t know then. You had left Jane Street and you went to California, was it like the classic I don't want to be a trader, I'm leaving this world, I'm thinking about what I'm doing next, but you got pulled back in because the opportunity was just so unignorable?…

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