I commend you on your moral leadership and I join everyone else in the comments in expressing gratitude for the tremendous good you’ve done so far. However, I’m curious about your decision to resign. I get the moral justification, but surely there are many grantees with many questions who’d be able to get better answers were you still within Future Fund. Something as simple as access to documents or previous emails would enable you to better support grantees who are likely in significant distress. Why did you see it as imperative to resign effective immediately? Why not at the very least see out your notice period?
I’m curious about this as well. Does leaving immediately not impede the chances of getting a better (I’d never dare say “full”) picture of what went down? Additionally, in terms of accountability, I guess now we’ll never know or have records of (from emails etc.) who knew what and when.
I don’t think staying on would add to what the insolvency trustee, regulatory authorities, and likely criminal prosecutors will uncover. The court has already appointed a liquidation trustee whose mission is preserving assets and does not include working with EA. Its unclear to me whether the trustee is in control of the FTX Foundation now, but the statement did say related entities. The FTX principals are doubtless preoccupied and are presumably attuned enough to legal exposure to not be having unnecessary conversations.
I commend you on your moral leadership and I join everyone else in the comments in expressing gratitude for the tremendous good you’ve done so far. However, I’m curious about your decision to resign. I get the moral justification, but surely there are many grantees with many questions who’d be able to get better answers were you still within Future Fund. Something as simple as access to documents or previous emails would enable you to better support grantees who are likely in significant distress. Why did you see it as imperative to resign effective immediately? Why not at the very least see out your notice period?
How does it take moral leadership to distance yourself from and condemn massive fraud? Even entirely selfish actors would do the same.
I’m curious about this as well. Does leaving immediately not impede the chances of getting a better (I’d never dare say “full”) picture of what went down? Additionally, in terms of accountability, I guess now we’ll never know or have records of (from emails etc.) who knew what and when.
I don’t think staying on would add to what the insolvency trustee, regulatory authorities, and likely criminal prosecutors will uncover. The court has already appointed a liquidation trustee whose mission is preserving assets and does not include working with EA. Its unclear to me whether the trustee is in control of the FTX Foundation now, but the statement did say related entities. The FTX principals are doubtless preoccupied and are presumably attuned enough to legal exposure to not be having unnecessary conversations.