Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis followed Sam Bankman-Fried for over a year, beginning when he was running FTX, the world's largest crypto exchange, and finishing with him in jail awaiting trial. Lewis is the only journalist who had this level of access to the most famous fraudster of the 2020s.
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Jim's Review
Lewis is the best non-fiction storyteller of his generation — Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short — and he had inside access to SBF through the FTX collapse. The result is the most readable account of the largest fraud of the 21st century, told from inside the building while it was burning. The book is controversial. Critics argue Lewis was too sympathetic to his subject, that he soft-pedaled the fraud, that he was conned. Read it anyway — the prose is electric, the access is unmatched, and the portrait of a young man who genuinely couldn't tell the difference between effective altruism and stealing customer funds will stay with you. Four worms. Pair with Number Go Up for balance.
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