My Journey From a Fund Manager to Running a Crypto Exchange

Wei Zhou sat down with Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of Alameda Research and FTX.com. Sam’s trading skill originated from Jane Street—a proprietary trading firm renown for being one of the world’s largest ETF liquidity providers. In this episode, Wei and Sam chatted about Alameda’s operations as one of the largest quant trading firms in the industry, the reason why he built an exchange—FTX.com on top of a successful quant fund, and about the growth of FTX, one of the fastest-growing derivatives exchanges.