Some attention has turned toward Caroline Ellison over her position as CEO of the FTX-linked trading firm Alameda Research amid the rapid collapse of FTX.
" with the "Harry Potter" book series as a kid. Her father is an economics professor, she told the podcast host.
Alameda, she also said in the podcast, was "too cool of an opportunity to pass up" after speaking with Bankman-Fried about it. She described dealing with capital as "kind of daunting" when she first started at the trading firm in 2018, according to the podcast. Representations of cryptocurrencies are seen in front of displayed FTX logo and decreasing stock graph in this illustration taken Nov. 10, 2022.
"Mostly, sort of, it was something I wasn’t used to thinking about," she said. "So it was sort of – I don’t know, I guess I was like a trader for, I mean, not that long at Jane Street but a year and a half, which was kind of more trading experience than a lot of Alameda traders had at the time. I kind of wanted to come in and be like an expert on everything, but there was still lots of stuff in the crypto world that I knew nothing about.
One thing Ellison learned working at Alameda was there are "a bunch of decisions that have to be made, and someone has to make all of them, and a lot of them are really uncertain," she said on the podcast. She said she had "gained a lot of appreciation" for making decisions amid uncertainty.
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