Bankman-Fried was born on the Stanford University campus in 1992 to a Jewish family. He is the son of Stanford Law School professors Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman. Linda P. Fried, his aunt, is the dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Gabriel Bankman-Fried, his brother, is a former Wall Street trader and the director of the non-profit Guarding Against Pandemics. Bankman-Fried attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically gifted high school students. He went to Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California for high school. Bankman-Fried studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2014. He resided in Epsilon Theta, a coeducational group house. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and a minor in mathematics in 2014.
Bankman-Fried started working at Jane Street Capital, a proprietary trading firm that trades international ETFs, in the summer of 2013. He began as an intern and then returned full-time after graduating. Bankman-Fried left Jane Street in September 2017 and relocated to Berkeley, where he worked as director of development for the Centre for Effective Altruism from October to November 2017. In November 2017, he co-founded Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm, with Tara Mac Aulay of the Centre for Effective Altruism. Bankman-Fried owned approximately 90% of Alameda Research as of 2021.
In January 2018, Bankman-Fried organized an arbitrage trade worth up to $25 million per day to capitalize on the higher price of bitcoin in Japan compared to the United States. He relocated to Hong Kong after attending a cryptocurrency conference in Macau in late 2018. In April 2019, he founded FTX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, which launched the following month. On December 8, 2021, Bankman-Fried and other industry executives testified before the Committee on Financial Services about cryptocurrency regulation. Emergent Fidelity Technologies Ltd., which is majority owned by Bankman-Fried, purchased 7.6% of Robinhood Markets Inc. stock on May 12, 2022.
Who is Caroline Ellison? Meet Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend
The recent bankruptcy filing of the cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX sent shockwaves to crypto traders and enthusiasts. The names of 130 FTX group affiliates are listed in the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Caroline Ellison, the CEO of the crypto firm Alameda Research, is one affiliate who has piqued people’s interest.
According to rumors, Ellison was previously involved with FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Here’s everything we know about Bankman-rumored Fried’s ex-girlfriend.
Caroline Ellison, the CEO of Alameda Research, another crypto firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried that went bankrupt alongside FTX, is 28 years old. She is the daughter of Glenn Ellison, an economist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Ellison graduated from Stanford University after being born in Boston. In an interview, Ellison said of her childhood, “I was pretty obsessed with Harry Potter as a kid.” When the first book came out when I was three, my parents read it aloud to me, and when the second book came out when I was five, I refused to wait for my parents to read it, so I read it myself.”
