Introducing - Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

Meet Sam. Sam is 30 years old. He typically wore t-shirts and shorts and sandals. He likes to play computer games. He is commanding this army of fairies and elves in this online game. He talks a lot about doing good and helping people. There really was this idea that he was going to change the world. Sam may not act the part, but he's a billionaire. Safer Mark Zuckerberg, no one in history, has ever gotten so rich so young. But on December 12, 2022, everything changes for Sam. And what he calls a screw-up, the US government calls one of the largest frauds in history. They had lost a very significant amount of money. Lots of people were hurt badly. Which left everyone wondering, who is Sam Bankman Freed? From Bloomberg and Wondery, the makers of the Shranknext Store, comes a new series, Spellcaster, the fall of Sam Bankman Freed, a story of incredible wealth. There was a sense of awe when he walked in. It was like a celebrity. Betrayal. He would flip a switch with regards to a given person. He would delete them from his reality. And what happens when that talk of doing good goes really, really bad? It was basically just everyone racing out the door of the burning building for the same exit, right? You realize that it was just a big smoking crater of a company. So that's when I started saying, don't trust Sam Bankman Freed. I'm Hannah Miller, a reporter for Bloomberg. Follow Spellcaster, the fall of Sam Bankman Freed on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can start listening to Spellcaster early and ad free by subscribing to Wondery Plus and Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. ♪♪♪ I asked him what I should ask Sam and he was just like, us where my money is. ♪♪♪