FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Gives the Tom Brady/Gisele Bundchen Backstory

July 2, 2021by Laura Shin

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of FTX, explains FTX’s sports-centric advertising model and talks about what is on his regulatory wish list going forward. Show highlights:

• why Sam is so excited to bring Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen onto the FTX team
• how FTX decides on who to sponsor
• why so many of FTX’s sponsorship are targeting US customers
• what makes the sports industry such an attractive place to advertise for FTX
• how FTX’s tokenized stocks work
• what Sam learned from the GameStop/Robinhood situation
• what makes FTX’s tokenized stocks different from Binance’s offering
• how FTX is dealing with regulatory obstacles
• what item is on the top of Sam’s regulatory wishlist
• whether FTT is a security

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