If Sam Bankman-Fried did nothing illegal, he might have been the best VC in history
What SBF bought vs. what it's worth today:
• Cursor: ~$200K → ~$3B (+1,499,900%)
• Anthropic: ~$499M → $82.3B (+16,400%)
• SpaceX: ~$200M → ~$15B (+7,400%)
• Solana: ~$189M → $5.1B (+2,600%)
• Robinhood: $612.5M → $4.9B (+700%)
• Genesis Digital: $1.17B → $3.5B (+200%)
Had he done nothing wrong, he'd have an estimated worth of $114,000,000,000 today
Instead he's tweeting from Federal Correctional Institution
And it begins
Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal judge its court filings contained AI hallucinations
The firm apologized to the federal judge as they had to submit multiple corrections focused around:
• Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist
• Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written
• Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
The primary team and secondary review all failed to catch these errors, meanwhile the firm's partners bill $2,000+ per hour