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When Caroline Ellison started her job at crypto hedge fund Alameda Research in 2018, she found a firm in disarray long before its implosion.
The former chief executive of Alameda and star witness in the trial of her boss and former romantic partner, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, described how she and her colleagues were unhappy living in Sam's turbulent world. According to one of her other bosses, who was trying to run the company with Bankman-Fried, "Sam was demanding and expecting everyone to work 18-hour days and give up anything like normal life, while he would not show up for meetings, not shower for weeks, have a mess all around him with old food everywhere and fall asleep at his desk."
Source Fool.com