Elon Musk Confirms Encounter With FTX, Says Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Set Off My BS Detector’ – The Daily Hodl

Tech billionaire and new Twitter CEO Elon Musk says he turned down a meeting with Sam Bankman-Fried earlier this year after the former crypto billionaire gave off some red flags. First shared by Internal Tech Emails, which posts emails from the tech industry that appear in public records, Morgan Stanley banker Michael Grimes reached out to Musk on behalf of Bankman-Fried offering a partnership on his Twitter investment. According to the email records, Grimes told Musk that the then-FTX CEO was interested in investing up to $5 billion in Musk’s Twitter takeover, and potentially helping to implement blockchain to the