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It turned out that Sam had nothing to worry about. In November 2021, Forbes listed his net worth at $22.5 billion, a notch below Rupert Murdoch and a notch above Laurene Powell Jobs. Twenty-two and a half billion dollars was roughly what you got if you simply agreed with the world’s leading venture capital firms that FTX’s crypto exchange business
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
How quickly life changes. One minute you’re making $300 a week as a college researcher. You’re sleeping in a basement and your only belongings are two black garbage bags, one full of clean clothes, the other dirty, and your biggest worry in the world is whether the pretty girl with the black curly hair whom you just met at the drum circle will call
... See moreNick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Edward Chancellor’s history of financial manias, Devil Take the Hindmost, urging them to read it. Chancellor’s account of England’s railway mania of 1845 had made an especially deep impression on Kagle, who saw all of the similarities between the railroad, then hailed as a revolutionary advance without historical parallel, and the Internet. In both
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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