Brett Harrison shares how he led FTX US to become the 3rd largest crypto exchange in the US by valuation ($8B) on its recent $400M Series A round.
Brett also shares how FTX's average daily trading volume has grown by more than 600% in 2021 with a peak total volume of $812 million during a 24-hour period on November 10th, 2021, with the total spot crypto trading more than $67 billion in the first full year of operation, and an increase in user count of 11,900% in 2021 to a total of 1.2 million users.
Brett also explains how FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried orange pilled him on Bitcoin, and how they landed some of the world's biggest names and brands to support FTX on its meteoric rise, including Tom Brady & Gisele Bundchen, Stephen Curry, David Ortiz, Trevor Lawrence, Kevin O'Leary, Udonis Haslem, as well as brand such as Major League Baseball, Golden State Warriors, FTX Arena & Miami Heat, Riot Games and much more.
ABOUT BRETT HARRISON:
Prior to joining FTX US, Brett was at Citadel Securities, where he managed technology for the firm's Options, ETF, OTC, and ADR trading globally. He began and spent the majority of his career at Jane Street, where he led the firm's algorithmic trading system development. He previously worked at Headlands Technologies as a senior software developer, and Brett received his Bachelor's and Masters in Computer Science from Harvard University.
WHERE TO FIND BRETT HARRISON:
→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brett_FTXUS/
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SHOW NOTES:
00:00:00 – Intro
00:02:51 – Withum Sponsor
00:03:36 – Early Years
00:05:48 – Bitcoin Origin Story
00:08:55 – Tom Brady
00:15:18 – Super Bowl ad
00:19:46 – Recent Series A
00:31:32 – Backwardation
00:37:31 – FTX Platform Security Measures
00:39:37 – Coinbase
00:45:12 – Government Sanctions and Interventions
00:53:26 – Geopolitical
00:58:54 – FTX US Gaming division
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