so-soI‘m a big fan of Michael Lewis and the kinds of stories he tells, especially when finance sits at the centre. Unfortunately this one didn‘t quite fire for me. Although the story of the collapse of FSX is particularly interesting, the way the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is narrated here lacked a bit of coherency for me. Too much focus on observational quirks and less than I‘d have liked on fraud. Okay, but not great.
pickVery interesting but somehow, there's both too much and not enough depth here. While I appreciate that Lewis is sticking to the facts and not creating a narrative to paint those facts, there were some significant gaps that left some holes in the story.
Also, it seemed like some things were in the wrong place? A few times, something was discussed that I felt a bit lost with and like it came out of nowhere only to get the background later on.
pickFor all the business books I read, I don‘t follow it much otherwise, so I wasn‘t familiar with the subject of this book Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam is a mathematical genius and young MIT grad but was, in many ways, clueless about the world when he build a large crypto trading firm and then crypto exchange. This is the story of his rise and fall by Lewis, who had intimate access in both periods. Fascinating story although some was over my head!
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