Sam Bankman-Fried

I'll be honest — when Sam Bankman-Fried first burst onto the scene, I was almost impressed. An MIT grad from Stanford who built FTX into a global crypto powerhouse before turning 30, landed on the Time 100 list, and was talking openly about effective altruism like he genuinely meant it. For a hot minute he felt like the rare tech billionaire who actually had a coherent worldview. Then 2022 happened, FTX collapsed almost overnight, billions in customer funds evaporated, and the whole "I'm giving it all away anyway" philosophy curdled into one of the biggest financial frauds in recent memory. Convicted on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in 2023, sentenced to 25 years. The fall was so fast it felt almost theatrical — a cautionary tale about charisma mistaken for character, wrapped in a very messy cargo-shorts aesthetic.

Name (English)

Sam Bankman-Fried

Name (Japanese)

サム・バンクマン＝フリード

Reading

さむ・ばんくまん＝ふりーど

Born

March 6, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Origin

Stanford, California, United States

Occupation

business executive / entrepreneur / investor / political donor / convict

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong
• 2022 Time 100

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sbf_ftx/
• Xhttps://x.com/SBF_FTX
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Bankman-Fried
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106543540

Tags

• California
• business executive
• entrepreneur
• investor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.