Former FTX US boss promises to share his knowledge of stock market operations

Brett Harrison had previously asked why today’s tech startups don’t do what U.S. retail giant Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) did by going public in their early years. In addition, he asked how companies “balance the desire to stay private for long periods of time while rushing to issue tokens.”

Rather than answer this series of questions posed by the former FTX president, a Twitter user with the handle, @JamesChristoph_ asked Brett Harrison in a straightforward manner what he knew about FTX US and when he learned what he knew.

Brett Harrison was recruited by FTX US in May 2021 after a successful career at Citadel Securities as a high speed trading manager. Brett Harrison helped grow FTX US and oversaw some of the company’s notable achievements, including raising $400 million at a market valuation of $8 billion.

“We went from being relatively obscure to being the fourth or fifth largest exchange in the U.S. in a very short period of time, while facing a very competitive landscape with Coinbase, Kraken – those big incumbents for the last 10 years“, Brett Harrison said in a statement at the time.

During his tenure, FTX US also made numerous acquisitions, including Embed Financials, a startup that the exchange hoped would help it improve new equity offerings for its customers in the United States.

The crypto veteran left the company in September, a few months before the crypto behemoth imploded.

The former FTX boss’s take: When to get ahead of the curve?

In response to James Christoph’s tweet, the former FTX boss said he would share details about what he knows about the stock market in due course. He did not provide further details on when or how he will choose to share that information.

I’ll share in time

– Brett Harrison (@BrettHarrison88) January 9, 2023

The investigation into Brett Harrison’s knowledge of the defunct trading platform is rooted in the idea that, as a key executive of the exchange, he might have been aware of certain details that should have been shared earlier.

Since the FTX collapse, the trading platform and the trio of Sam Bankman-Fried, Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison have been under investigation by U.S. authorities. No one has named the former FTX boss as a person of interest in the trading platform’s collapse, a situation that no one can say how long it will remain.

At present, FTX investors and creditors, numbering about one million, do not know when they will be able to withdraw their funds stored when the exchange suspended withdrawals and filed for bankruptcy.