'Big Short' author Michael Lewis says he's almost done writing SBF book
Lewis said his interviews included those in Bankman-Fried's inner circle, employees, investors, Bahamas officials and U.S. regulators. While he's already sold the movie rights to Apple, his final manuscript isn't due for a couple more months.
"It was a really odd call," Lewis recounted, telling the story at the Bitcoin 2023 conference."He said, 'I've got a problem. I'm about to do a deal where I'm going to exchange shares in my company with another company. It's like a couple hundred million dollar deal. And I'm very comfortable with the company. But I just don't know the guy who runs it. I just can't get a read on him. His name is Sam Bankman-Fried.
"But so we went for a walk and I asked him lots of questions," Lewis continued."First thing is I call my friend and I said, 'go ahead do the deal. What could go wrong?' And the second thing was, is I thought like, 'I just want to see what happens to this person.'"Lewis said he asked Bankman-Fried if he could" just watch," and be a"fly on the wall." The FTX and Alameda Research owner agreed, and reporting went through October of last year.
"It aims to read like a piece of fiction," Lewis said."If you didn't know anything about crypto. If you didn't even know who Sam Bankman-Fried was. You might think 'this is just a made up story.' It's an incredible story."
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