Maybe the threat was via Sam being influential and people checking in with him about past employees?
41⁄49 After I left FTX US and up until November, nearly every conversation I had with a venture capitalist about my new company eventually came around to the same kind of question: “Is FTX investing? Is Sam okay with you doing this? Do you mind if we confirm with him?”
And as a general rule most people try to avoid making enemies out of people who they perceive to have lots of power/influence when possible. So their threat model doesn’t necessarily have to be terribly well-defined to be effective at accomplishing the powerful/influential person’s objective.
Maybe the threat was via Sam being influential and people checking in with him about past employees?
And as a general rule most people try to avoid making enemies out of people who they perceive to have lots of power/influence when possible. So their threat model doesn’t necessarily have to be terribly well-defined to be effective at accomplishing the powerful/influential person’s objective.