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Sam Bankman-Fried.
  • FTX planned a "mini city" headquarters in the Bahamas that was never constructed, per Michael Lewis' biography.
  • The architects struggled to get executives to tell them what they wanted.
  • They eventually got a list of three ideas from FTX, including that the side of the building should resemble SBF's hair.

When FTX was planning its headquarters in the Bahamas, the architects were asked to make it resemble Sam Bankman-Fried's characteristic hairdo, according to Michael Lewis' biography.

The crypto company had paid $4.5 million for about five acres of land on which it hoped to build a "mini city," but the architects struggled to understand exactly what FTX wanted, according to Lewis' book: "Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon."