Sam Bankman-Fried | Before They Were Criminal | How He Stole $16 Billion With FTX Ponzi Scheme

BEFORE a just barely thirty-year-old man with a mop of brown hair would earn himself enough crypto-currency clout to be known simply by his initials -- SBF -- Sam Bankman-Fried was born on March 6th, 1992 on the campus of Stanford University. As the son of two Jewish Stanford Law professors, Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, Sam spent a large percentage of his childhood playing games like chess, bridge, “Magic the Gathering” and the video game series “League of Legends” when he wasn’t busy attending class at an elite prep-school known as Crystal Springs Uplands where he excelled academically in almost every subject. By the time he was ready to move onto a post-secondary institution, Sam set his sights on studying physics at Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology where he wound up juggling several extracurriculars alongside his regular academic schedule while living in a co-ed group home called Epsilon Theta – a place that likes to promote itself as an alcohol-free zone for activities like playing board games, square dancing, and debating logic problems.