
FTX SOLD A $200K STAKE THAT WOULD BE WORTH $3 BILLION TODAY
In 2022, Alameda Research (Sam Bankman-Fried's trading firm, tied to FTX) invested $200,000 in a small startup called Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, the AI code editor.
→ That check bought roughly 5% of the company.
In November of the same year, FTX collapsed. The bankruptcy liquidators needed to sell everything fast to pay creditors.
In April 2023, they sold that 5% stake in Cursor for… exactly the same $200,000. ZERO PROFIT.
This week, Elon Musk's SpaceX announced it has the option to buy Cursor for $60 billion by the end of the year.
Those same 5% would be worth roughly $3 billion today.
A 15,000x return that FTX creditors lost forever.
Meanwhile, Sam remains in prison arguing that the bankruptcy lawyers destroyed billions by selling assets too early.
This case just became Exhibit A for his argument.

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