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Sam Bankman-Fried - Footnote 8
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Last checked: 4/3/2026
The article states that Bankman-Fried is 33 years old, which is incorrect. He was born in 1992, so he would be around 31 or 32 at the time of the article's writing. The claim that he studied physics and mathematics at MIT is not entirely accurate. The source only mentions that he received a bachelor's degree in physics.
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partial90%Haiku 4.5 · 4/3/2026
Found: Bankman-Fried was born on March 6, 1992, in Stanford, California, to Barbara Fried and Joe Bankman, both law professors at Stanford University. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and later MIT, where…
Note: The article states that Bankman-Fried is 33 years old, which is incorrect. He was born in 1992, so he would be around 31 or 32 at the time of the article's writing. The claim that he studied physics and mathematics at MIT is not entirely accurate. The source only mentions that he received a bachelor's degree in physics.
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