Sam Bankman-Fried | Before They Were Criminal | How He Stole $16 Billion With FTX Ponzi Scheme

BEFORE a just barely thirty-year-old man with a mop of brown hair
would earn himself enough crypto-currency clout to be known simply
by his initials -- SBF -- Sam Bankman-Fried was born on March 6th,
1992 on the campus of Stanford University. As the son of two Jewish
Stanford Law professors, Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, Sam
spent a large percentage of his childhood playing games like chess,
bridge, “Magic the Gathering” and the video game series “League of
Legends” when he wasn’t busy attending class at an elite
prep-school known as Crystal Springs Uplands where he excelled
academically in almost every subject. By the time he was ready to
move onto a post-secondary institution, Sam set his sights on
studying physics at Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology where he
wound up juggling several extracurriculars alongside his regular
academic schedule while living in a co-ed group home called Epsilon
Theta – a place that likes to promote itself as an alcohol-free
zone for activities like playing board games, square dancing, and
debating logic problems.