Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of FTX, explains FTX’s sports-centric advertising model and talks about what is on his regulatory wish list going forward. Show highlights:
- why Sam is so excited to bring Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen onto the FTX team
- how FTX decides on who to sponsor
- why so many of FTX’s sponsorship are targeting US customers
- what makes the sports industry such an attractive place to advertise for FTX
- how FTX’s tokenized stocks work
- what Sam learned from the GameStop/Robinhood situation
- what makes FTX’s tokenized stocks different from Binance’s offering
- how FTX is dealing with regulatory obstacles
- what item is on the top of Sam’s regulatory wishlist
- whether FTT is a security
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