Fortune has an intriguing new profile of Caroline Ellison, the young woman who was CEO of Sam Bankman-Fried's hedge fund, Alameda Research. Writer Courtney Rubin reached out to 150 of Ellison's friends and associates to create the most complete picture to date of the young woman who is now a cooperating witness in the criminal trial against Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX and her one-time boyfriend.
What emerges is a picture of Ellison that shows her to be utterly brilliant in some aspects of life—especially math and economics—but totally stunted in others, especially when it came to social interactions. We learn that she viewed talking with other people as "unpleasant" and that, in the words of a college friend, “she would marry her math homework if that was legal."
