INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NO 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Extraordinary The Observer A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New Yorker Lewis s storytelling is as good as ever The Economist From the 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys the high octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century s most spectacular financial collapses I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money He thought the question over One hundred and fifty billion dollars he finally said though he added that he had use for infinity dollars Sam Bankman Fried wasn t just rich Before he turned thirty he d become the world s youngest billionaire making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy CEOs celebrities and world leaders vied for his time At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there Then it all fell apart Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world a rumpled guy in cargo shorts whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side who even his million dollar investors still found a mystery What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money and how did his empire col
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Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9781802063516
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 288
Tiempo de lectura:
5h 55m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 27/08/2024
Año de edición: 2024
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Escrito por Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis estudió Historia en Princeton y tiene un máster en Economía por la London School of Economics. Es periodista y autor de libros de gran éxito tales como Deshaciendo errores (Debate, 2017), Flash Boys (Deusto, 2014), Boomerang (Deus-to, 2012), La gran apuesta (Debate, 2013) o El póquer del mentiroso (Alienta, 2011), varios de los cuales han sido adaptados al cine. Asimismo, es columnista en Bloomberg View y sus artículos han sido publicados en revistas como Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate o Foreign Affairs.