Unconfirmed: FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Gives the Tom Brady/Gisele Bundchen Backstory - Ep.251
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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Episode Links
Sam Bankman-Fried
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda
- Previous Unchained appearance: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-the-gamestop-insanity-is-so-similar-to-crypto/
FTX
Website: https://ftx.com
Carbon credits: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ftx-bitmex-to-become-carbon-neutral
Tokenized Stocks
- FTX guidelines: https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051229472-Tokenized-Stocks
- CoinDesk: https://www.coindesk.com/ftx-follows-binances-lead-with-move-into-tokenized-stocks
FTX Sports Deals
- NBA: https://www.coindesk.com/ftx-miami-heat-nfts
- Tom Brady: https://decrypt.co/74771/tom-brady-and-gisele-bundchen-invest-in-ftx
- TSM FTX: https://www.sporttechie.com/tsm-esports-signs-210-million-sponsorship-with-ftx-crypto-exchange
- MLB: https://www.coindesk.com/ftx-sponsors-mlb-umpires-to-wear-crypto-exchanges-logo
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