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Brooke Seipel

Ken Griffin says crypto is exploding right now because more people want to have ‘agency’ in their lives

Ken Griffin (Credit: Eugene Gologursky—Getty Images for The New York Times)

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says it was a “mistake” not to buy crypto sooner, but that doesn’t mean he’s suddenly a fan of Bitcoin.

“Of course, I wish I bought something that trades at 100 times the price it traded at a few years ago,” the billionaire investor told Andrew Ross Sorkin during the New York Times DealBook Summit 2024. “We all have FOMO. It’s just universal, it’s part of human psychology.”

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