No one person had the full picture of the puzzle Sam had made out of money. Ramnik likely had the clearest view of it, but even his view was partial. Inside of three years, Sam would deploy roughly $5 billion on a portfolio of three hundred separate investments—which worked out to a new investment decision roughly every three days. If Sam spent onl

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Inside of three years, it appeared, Sam Bankman-Fried had created a business so valuable that his share of it implied that he was now the richest person in the world under the age of thirty. “When I first looked at the numbers, I was like, Can this really be true—can this guy really be worth twenty billion dollars?” said Chase Peterson-Withorn, who

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