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Podcast: Chat With Traders
Episode: Sam Bankman-Fried – Leaving Wall Street, Entering Crypto Chaos
Description: This episode features Sam Bankman-Fried, who’s trading skill originated from 3-years at Jane Street—a proprietary trading firm renown for being one of the world’s largest ETF liquidity providers.In late-2017, Sam relocated to Hong Kong and began his foray into the cryptocurrency market when he co-founded Alameda Research. Alameda trade a range of quantitative strategies—such as statistical arbitrage and market making—which are mostly automated, but with a layer of human intervention.Within 2-years Alameda has grown to a point, where each day, it does approximately one billion dollars of turnover across 35...