FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried fumed over media spotlight on polyamorous sex life trends now
Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried fumed over media speculation about his and his fellow executives' polyamorous lifestyle in an interview.
Bankman-Fried lamented that the media's 'metric is clicks' during a phone call with crypto influencer Tiffany Fong and YouTuber Stephen 'Coffeezilla' Findeisen.
Earlier this month it was revealed that Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend and the CEO of one of his companies, Caroline Ellison, wrote about being polyamorous while she and other executives lived together in a house in the Bahamas.
Excerpts from the November 16 phone call were published by Findeisen on Twitter today, and Bankman-Fried could be heard saying how he was tired of the speculation about his and his fellow executives' love lives.
They come just as the former FTX employees revealed the exorbitant spending Bankman-Fried and his fellow executives undertook on the company dime, which included massive food stipends, massages, and even private jets ferrying Amazon deliveries to their luxury Bahamas office.
FTX filed for bankruptcy earlier this month amid reports it owes billions of dollars to customers.
Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried fumed over media speculation about his and his fellow executives polyamorous lifestyle in an interview
Bankman-Fried told Fong and Findeisen that the media was focusing on 'provocative' subjects so they could avoid a 'boring story' that 'won't sell.'
The problem is that, at the end of the day, their metric is clicks. That's what they need to get and it's fine, it is what it is, but what it means is that a boring story won't sell and so they're going to be trying to ask me, like, the most provocative possible questions,' he said.
He said he thought 'society' had spent enough time speculating about the love life of him and his fellow executives living in the Albany resort in the Bahamas.
'We, as a society, have, in my opinion, in my humble opinion, have spent about enough time this week trying to figure out whether anyone living in Albany was polyamorous,' Bankman-Fried said. 'I feel like I've answered that question a lot, and the answer is too boring for people to, like, believe.'
Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, the CEO of FTX's sister company Alameda Research, became the center of rumors about the polyamorous romantic world of FTX
In her now-deleted Tumblr, Ellison wrote in 2020 under the handle Worldoptimization, 'When I
