In this episode, David interviews Tiffany Fong – an investor activist and independent journalist whose extended post-arrest interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried played a major role in unpacking what happened in the FTX collapse.
Tiffany first entered the public eye in 2022 as a victim of the Celcius collapse and alleged fraud, becoming a conduit for leaks from the company. She then interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried for many hours while he was on house arrest in Palo Alto, helping uncover specific crimes – and more importantly, gaining insight into how Sam’s brain worked.
We talk about her experience stumbling into journalism, what it was like watching Sam on trial, and why both Sam’s parents and Krissy Mashinsky hate her so damn much.
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Tiffany Fong is a Better Journalist than Michael Lewis