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Meet Sam Bankman-Fried's family: His parents are Stanford law professors, his aunt is a dean at Columbia, and his brother is the founder of a nonprofit
Meet Sam Bankman-Fried's family: His parents are Stanford law professors, his aunt is a dean at Columbia, and his brother is the founder of a nonprofit
Huileng TanDec 14, 2022, 16:44 IST
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested by Bahamian authorities on Monday.Alex Wong / Getty Images
Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday. The US SEC has charged him with fraud.
Bankman-Fried's law-professor parents were spotted at their son's hearing in the Bahamas on Tuesday.
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Sam Bankman-Fried was raised in an academic family based in Silicon Valley. He grew up playing games like chess and bridge.
Sam Bankman-Fried cofounded FTX in 2019 and is its CEO.FTX
His father, Joseph Bankman, is a Stanford law professor who is also a clinical psychologist.
Joseph Bankman has postponed his class that was slated to start in January amid FTX's fallout.Stanford University
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His mother, Barbara Fried, is a professor emerita of law at Stanford.
Barbara Fried co-founded Mind the Gap, a super PAC political action committee.Stanford University
His younger brother, Gabriel Bankman-Fried, founded and ran a nonprofit called Guarding Against Pandemics — which was in part funded by SBF.
Gabe Bankman-Fried stepped down as director of Guarding Against Pandemics in mid-November.FP Global Health Forum
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His aunt, Linda Fried, is the dean of the public health school at Columbia University.
Linda Fried is a public health expert.Columbia University