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01 / belief
“I think as of what we're speaking about right now, volumes are down because people are sort of generally fearful.”
02 / belief
“I think either way, it was worth a try. And I think maybe the biggest misconception about the application was that if we got approved, it meant suddenly FTX is going to list everything from corn to soybeans to oil to SMP 500 overnight and completely, you know, destroy the existing derivatives landscape.”
03 / belief
“I think you might not get a clear answer on this thing for a place like Jane Street, where the firm is really run by, like, 30 or so, you know, partners and senior employees who have, like, been there.”
04 / belief
“You can't not go through a broker dealer. But I think that we could eventually try to get the appropriate licensing required to be an intermediary that is focused on being like a technology forward interface towards people being able to do more program trading.”
05 / belief
“I think that people in my circles were quicker to take action in the face of knowing about COVID There are a lot of people who kind of stuck around in cities and their existing particular situations not knowing kind of where this was going to head long term.”
06 / belief
“I think a lot more differences than people appreciate from the outside. Different companies have established different niches and areas like Jane Street established its early niche and ETF at kind of like a mid frequency level.”
07 / belief
“I was still an equity holder in FTX and FTX US. I was still very pro FTX, in spite of my experience with Sam.”
08 / belief
“I think if you believe if you want to question whether getting a few extra milliseconds or microseconds or nanoseconds is worth it, I think you're then putting some kind of value judgments on.”
09 / belief
“Although then again, the bar was extremely high at Change Street, so I think that's already sort of a compliment.”
10 / belief
“I think the primary reason is that existing settlement systems in traditional markets seem to be very slow and built on very outdated technology that's like highly non transparent and very error prone.”
11 / belief
“We have to maybe distinguish between centralized and decentralized finance here. But I would say regulators saw FTX as at least one of the companies that was very willing to work directly and collaboratively with regulators, as opposed to trying to kind of skirt around the regulatory system.”
12 / belief
“I never visited the places where they lived in that Albany section of the Bahamas, so I think I didn't fully grasp the extent to which they were all living in this particular arrangement.”
13 / belief
“I was on chat groups that he was in, and so occasionally he would respond to something I say on that group, but one on one conversations, I think there were fewer than ten for my entire tenure.”
14 / belief
“I would say the United States, except what's happened is US. Companies like Nasdaq have licensed their exchange matching engine technology to other exchanges around the world.”
15 / belief
“I think that sometimes there can be liquidity differences that cause at least temporary dislocations and stocks.”
16 / belief
“I think the conventional wisdom, at least in 2009 when we applying for internships, was like, okay, I'm going to sit in the cubicle and stare at a screen for 16 hours a day.”
17 / belief
“I think a lot of them found that their preexisting ideas that in order for the team to succeed, everyone needed to be the exact same place.”
18 / belief
“If I'm going to be an optimist about this, I'd like to think that when it was like older, single or married males hoarding a large amount of wealth that for the most part, they kept it to themselves and kind of waited until later in life to do anything with it, and were the kind of people who really, like, saved their same career their whole lives, as opposed to if younger and younger generations are amassing wealth through what they can actually perform with their skills, then I think that hopefully injects more Dynamism into the distribution of that wealth later on because those millennials within like or Gen Z or whoever will go on to found new companies, and maybe they'll be able to see the company themselves, their own money, and have a lot easier time, like bringing, like, interesting new things to market.”
19 / belief
“There's a very large chasm between I don't think they're doing a good job running the company and I think that customer funds are at risk.”
20 / belief
“We're building very general infrastructure and we think crypto is a viable asset class, but is one of many.”
21 / belief
“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.”
22 / belief
“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.”
23 / belief
“A healthy amount of cross pollination would be good for both where I think a lot of trading firms are doing the exact same thing that all the other trading firms have done and some healthy injection of creativity into.”