Emre Yumlu 
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried addresses management challenges and layoffs on X platform.
Sam Bankman-Fried Discusses Layoffs After FTX Scandal
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, ended his two-year silence on the X platform, sharing a series of tweets discussing employee layoffs and the company’s management challenges. The posts, made on Monday evening, sparked widespread discussion and speculation within the crypto community.
Bankman-Fried began his thread by referencing his current situation, saying, “I have a lot of sympathy for government employees: I, too, have not checked my email for the past few (hundred) days,” adding that “being unemployed is a lot less relaxing than it looks.”
He argued that layoffs are often caused by a mismatch between an employee’s skills and the company’s needs. The former CEO detailed various scenarios such as lack of managerial support, incompatible work styles, and misaligned project goals.
“More often, the problem is that the company just doesn’t have the right job for them,” he stated.
“Maybe we just didn’t have anyone free to manage them at that time. Maybe they worked best remotely, but our company communicated in person,” he wrote.
He also pointed to departmental issues and the problem of over-hiring, referencing competitors who hired excessively and then struggled to manage their workforce.
“This happens, now and then. We saw it at competitors who hired 30,000 too many employees and had no idea what to do with them—so entire teams sat around doing nothing,” he mentioned, without naming specific companies. “And we saw it internally, when a manager got busy or distracted, and half of a department lost its way.”
“It’s not the employee’s fault when that happens. It’s not their fault if their employer doesn’t know what to do with them, or doesn’t have anyone to manage them effectively. It’s not their fault if internal politics lead their department off track,” he added.
“But there’s no point in keeping them around, doing nothing,” he concluded.
Bankman-Fried’s sudden return to X raised questions about how he manages his account from the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, where he is serving a 25-year sentence for orchestrating the major crypto scam.
In his first interview from prison, Bankman-Fried expressed hope for a presidential pardon and criticized the Biden administration, arguing that his conviction was part of “prosecutorial overreach” during Biden’s presidency. His parents are reportedly exploring ways to secure a pardon for him, including consulting lawyers and individuals connected to Trump.
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