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SBF
@SBF_FTX
2) I'm back in the states for the first time in about a year and a half. There's probably a thread to write here about COVID and masks and vaccines and travel and Asian and the bay area and Miami, but this isn't that thread.
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SBF
@SBF_FTX
3) Last time I was here, I was visiting a Berkeley office, bustling with life. BTC was trading at $9k, about to crash to $4k. FTX had a few hundred millions of dollars per day of volume.
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SBF
@SBF_FTX
4) There was potential, but it was just that--potential. We were grinding, and putting out fires, and onboarding our first few huge users. (Hopefully some of that never changes; hopefully we never stop grinding.)
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SBF
@SBF_FTX
5) We had two developers, and a few people in BD. We were scratching for any relationships or connections or media we could get. On March 12th we set our record with $5b of volume, and had a month of CS cleanup after hours of downtime. On May 19th we had $50b and no downtime.
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SBF
@SBF_FTX
6) It was the first time I'd been in the states and felt like I'd begun to move on from my life before FTX. I felt like a ghost.
@ftx_us
hadn't started yet but my old life there was over. And all things considered I was pretty happy when my trip ended.
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Runemir
@RunemirQi
Replying to
@SBF_FTX
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@SBF_Alameda
Covid forced us to do some soul searching, either because we had more time for ourselves or we felt an existential threat, economically and health-wise. In any case, the result should be a higher level of consciousness on a global level. It might not be apparent now, though.
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