FTX collapse dooms founder’s pandemic-prevention agenda
in the wake of FTX’s troubles. Michele Barry, a global health expert who directs the Stanford center, said Sam Bankman-Fried had reached out to her for advice on how to have an impact on pandemic prevention.“He was smart, thoughtful and publicly spirited,” Barry wrote in a text message. “He was personally engaged and passionate about using his money to make a difference.
Both brothers did stints at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative trading firm, but while Sam continued in the financial world, Gabe pivoted to work in Washington, D.C., as a data expert for a progressive organization before taking a job in 2019 as legislative correspondent for Casten, an Illinois scientist who had just been elected to Congress.
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