Going infinite : the rise and fall of a new tycoon
(2023)

Nonfiction

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332.4/LEWIS,M
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]
©2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xv, 254 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781324074335, 1324074337, 9781324074335, 1324074337, 9781324074335
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Act I -- Yup ; The Santa Claus problem ; Meta games ; The march of progress ; Act II -- How to think about Bob ; Artificial love ; The org chart ; Act III -- The dragon's hoard ; The vanishing ; Manfred ; Truth serum ; Coda

"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite, Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking readers into the mind of Bankman-Fried, whose rise and fall offers an education in high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies, philanthropy, bankruptcy, and the justice system. Both psychological portrait and financial roller-coaster ride, Going Infinite is Michael Lewis at the top of his game, tracing the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own--until it all came undone"--