Netflix's FTX showrunner says SBF and Caroline Ellison were altruists from day one

How The Altruists expands Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto saga into a dysfunctional love story

In November 2022, everyone watched Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion cryptocurrency empire collapse at a dizzying speed. Glued to the FTX news at the time was The Imitation Game‘s Oscar-winning writer Graham Moore, who tells The A.V. Club that it felt like the world’s biggest story because a “so-called white knight of the finance world was being revealed as a potential fraud.”  Bankman-Fried was, in fact, convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy, and m…

Netflix's FTX showrunner says SBF and Caroline Ellison were altruists from day one

Graham Moore, creator of Netflix's FTX series The Altruists, says Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison set out to do good before their crimes.

The Altruists creator Graham Moore says SBF and Ellison set out to do good

Netflix released the trailer for “The Altruists” on October 8. Creator Graham Moore said Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison wanted to do good before they committed fraud. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle lead an eight-episode series out November 19 “I genuinely believe that both Sam and Caroline...