Ex-FTX boss finds Sam Bankman-Fried love story series on Netflix laughable: No fing way

When crypto exchange FTX went up in flames in 2022 it lost billions of investors’ money and forever altered the public’s view of digital currencies.It quickly emerged company CEO and Effective Altruist Sam Bankman-Fried had illegally moved billions from the exchange to prop up his hedge fund, run — at least on paper — by his one-time girlfriend and co-worker Caroline Ellison.The incident has been made into new Netflix show “The Altruists,” billed as “a toxic love story inspired by a real fraud” which has appalled and gobsmacked those who had a ringside seat to the collapse.FTX’s former chief operating officer, Constance Wang, says trying to portray what happened through the lens of a love story is laughable.“[Bankman-Fried’s] entire goal was to change the world, make an impact, do good.Love, relationship, family seemed a bit secondary to him.“The ‘Me and you against the world’ romantic thing? No f—ing way,” Wang told The Post in her first exclusive interview about FTX’s fall.Wang is even a character in the show, played by Madison Hu, but couldn’t even get through the trailer when a friend showed it her over breakfast.

“I literally physically threw up because it just made me feel so uncomfortable,” after about 40 seconds, she said.She also slams the romance storyline at the center of the show as laughable.“For the longest time in the company we did not know they were dating, and we did not know Sam was capable of dating at all, because he was working all the time,” Wang said.“I had a group chat with some of my close employees, and I was shocked.I was like, ‘Do you guys know this?’ They were like, ‘No.

We thought you knew?’”The show charts SBF, Ellison and their followers through their ill-fated journey to revolutionize the financial system along idealistic Effective Altruist lines, supposedly using their money and intelligence to make the world a better place.However, SBF bought $35m party home in the Bahamas ...