Hacia El Infinito: Ascenso Y Caída de San Bankman-Fried, Fundador de Ftx / Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - by Michael Lewis

Book Synopsis

Sam Bankman-Fried es un genio fascinante e incomprendido. Con esa pinta de bohemio, siempre desaliñado, despeinado y desgarbado, nadie hubiera imaginado que se convertiría en el multimillonario más joven del mundo. De igual manera, nadie hubiera sospechado que, más tarde, lo enjuiciarían y tratarían como un «supervillano depravado» con «motivaciones oscuras y megalómanas».

Michael Lewis, periodista y escritor bestseller, nos trae la impactante historia de Sam Bankman-Fried, un veinteañero mustio y ambicioso que pasó de ser el rey de las criptomonedas a estafador profesional, condenado por fraude tras declarar en bancarrota a ftx, su plataforma de intercambio de criptomonedas que llegó a ser el tercer mercado más grande del mundo.

En Hacia el infinito no solo encontraremos el retrato psicológico de uno de los personajes más interesantes de nuestra época, sino también una valiosa lección acerca de los límites y peligros de la economía digital.

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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLER

One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 -
One of Pure Wow's 42 Book to Gift This Year - One
ofFortune's Best Crypto Books of 2023

"Going Infinite is in many ways Lewis at his
best. He marshals a complex global story without losing sight of the
delightful and revealing human details. He is a world-class
noticer."--Jesse Armstrong, writer and creator of
HBO's Succession, Times Literary
Supplement

"A stupefyingly pleasurable book to
read." --Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New
Yorker

"Going Infinite is an
instant classic." -- Helen Lewis, The
Atlantic

"Going Infinite is
wildly entertaining, surprising multiple times on pretty much every page, but
it adds up to a sad story, even a tragedy, for its central character and for
all the people who lost so much thanks to his actions." --John
Lanchester, London Review of Books

"Will join Digital Gold as one of the
all-time best crypto books."--Jeff John
Roberts, Fortune

"A
wry, engaging writer and a gifted storyteller." --Julia M.
Klein, Los Angeles Times

"It may be easy to take for granted how entertainingly [Michael
Lewis] pulls it off again in Going Infinite." --Brett
Martin, GQ

From the
best-selling author of The Big
Short and Flash
Boys, the story of FTX's spectacular
collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center.

When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the
world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs,
celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash
after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto
the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in
cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings
as he played video games on the side?

In Going
Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this
question, taking readers into the mind of Bankman-Fried, whose rise and fall
offers an education in high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies,
philanthropy, bankruptcy, and the justice system. Both psychological portrait
and financial roller-coaster ride, Going
Infinite is Michael Lewis at the top of his
game, tracing the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the
rules and was allowed to live by his own--until it all came
undone.