One month before FTX collapsed, Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary said: 

"If there's ever a place I could be that I'm not gonna get in trouble, it's gonna be at FTX."

Oh, the irony! Kevin thought FTX was the unsinkable Titanic of crypto. Guess we all need better lifeboats in these choppy waters!

This wasn’t an unpopular opinion at the time.

I think many viewed it as the most credibly solvent exchange.

A lot of this was pure “There’s no way they aren’t printing lots of money” fallacy that “solvency” should even apply to exchanges.

But it was widely viewed as the most professional exchange.

Let’s also never forget Adam Fisher’s uncritically sycophantic “examination” of SBF on behalf of Sequoia Capital (who since silently pulled it from their website instead of adding a disclaimer, how brave):

Let’s also never forget Adam Fisher’s uncritically sycophantic “examination” of SBF on behalf of Sequoia Capital (who since silently pulled it from their website instead of adding a disclaimer, how brave): https://web.archive.org/web/20221109230422/https:/www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlight/