'Sam? Are you there?!' The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
41 min
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried will stand trial for overseeing fraud that sucked in high-profile investors and hundreds of thousands of clients. Why do intelligent people buy into bad companies? Peter Guest reflects on the industry's susceptibility to scams due to a combination of neomania, technobabble, and hubris. Read by Michael Satow.