Tonight We Are Young (Sam Bankman-Fried, 2019)
| Author | Sam Bankman-Fried |
|---|---|
| Published | 2019 |
| Format | Article |
TL;DR — An excerpt of Sam Bankman-Fried’s 2019 first-person account of a BitMEX after-party in Taipei, mingling with crypto figures as Alameda and FTX were rising.
A four-page document titled “Tonight We Are Young” in which Sam Bankman-Fried writes, in the first person and present-tense detail, about a night in 2019. It opens with his all-consuming trading routine at Alameda Research (sleeping by his computer, watching the next second and minute), then describes a party BitMEX hosted at the end of a crypto conference in Taipei: the VIP section, conversations with BitMEX staff, Binance’s founder and other industry figures, gossip about who was courting whom, and his own social awkwardness. It ends on the line that “the changing of the guards doesn’t require any of the old guards to actually leave.”
The full piece is reported to be much longer; this file is an excerpt. It became public in January 2023, after FTX’s collapse, when it was shared on the Substack of blogger Tiffany Fong, who was in contact with Bankman-Fried. Despite the filename, it is not a memo to FTX employees.
What it is: A private personal writing by a now-convicted public figure, released informally after the fact. Unverified provenance; names real people in gossipy terms.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
4 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.