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Caroline Ellison: "Things Sam [Bankman-Fried] is freaking out about"
Circa fall 2022
[REDACTED]
work priorities:
hedging/getting more capital
sell NQAs
tokenizing stocks
Blockfi
raising from Saudis
make SBF's delta visibility better
trading JGBs
serum governance thing/swordfish
PERP governance thing
fixing our upbit shit
getting more loans
deep dive for ventures stuff we could sell
politics stuff
testing FTX US stocks
look into Willie's bc accum desposes
how much does it cost not to do PFOF?
follow up on RH wormhole 0x thing
figure out policy on location ($100m)
IAR plans
follow up on Deltec stuff ($5m)
Playup ($5m)
finish the rest of the DD docs
GHS ($2m)
paradigm trading ($10k/day)
understanding WAVES stuff ($10m)
integrating Ledger Prime
data retention
go through my telegram DMs
go through my telegram groups
security
remove people's AR emails
security checklist
things Sam is freaking out about:
hedging
bad PR in the next 6 months
Alameda/FTX
user experience
VIPs: API throughput
click traders: front end lag
getting regulators to crack down on binance
raising from MBS
getting capital from Blockfi
Alameda/Modulo relationship
Willie being happy
insto stock onboarding
reddit
buying SNAP
trading JGBs
bad English lanugage content
making bonus process better for next semester
[REDACTED]
projects I'm excited about:
hedging our overall deltas
understanding the ETH merge
[This document is from U.S. v. Samuel Bankman-Fried (2023).]
Apple renegotiates Google search deal with Sundar Pichai
On Jan 22, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Tim Cook wrote:
How did the meeting go?
Sent from my iPhone
Subject: Re: Google
From: Eddy Cue
To: Tim Cook
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:36:47 +0000
Good except for the rev share… did not come back with a specific number but said there was no way he could make [REDACTED] work. He tried to say we pay you more than anyone, numbers are increasing and i will pay you for everything so we should keep it at [REDACTED]I told him that him and I need to sit down alone next week and agree to the economic terms or we shouldn't move forward.
[This document is from U.S. v. Google (2023).]
Further reading from David Pierce: Apple defends Google Search deal in court (September 26, 2023)
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