Caroline Ellison: How a young math whiz with an appetite for risk became a major player in Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt crypto empire

(Credit: Illustration by Joan Wong/photo from Twitter/@CarolineCapital)

At a blond-wood table in a serene Japanese restaurant on a tree-lined street in Murray Hill, Manhattan, the 26-year-old Caroline Ellison was asked a pointed question by one of her friends.

“Are you a millionaire or a billionaire?”