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Fortune
Jessica Mathews

Sam Bankman-Fried’s guilty verdict should be a lesson for us all

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court (Credit: ED JONES—AFP/Getty Images)

In the secretive world of venture capital and startups, information means access—and it means money. 

And so it’s rare that we see that closely-guarded information—the financials, the emails, the cap table—all picked apart and challenged for anyone who chooses to pay attention. It’s rare we hear a startup’s executives give unadulterated answers to questions—on the record, under oath—laying out how things really went under the hood. 

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