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Brett Harrison shares how he led FTX US to become the 3rd largest crypto exchange in the US by valuation ($8B) on its recent $400M Series A round.Brett also shares how FTX's average daily trading volume has grown by more than 600% in 2021 with a peak total volume of $812 million during a 24-hour period on November 10th, 2021, with the total spot crypto trading more than $67 billion in the first full year of operation, and an increase in user count of 11,900% in 2021 to a total of 1.2 million users.Brett also explains how FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried orange pilled him on Bitcoin, and how they landed some of the world's biggest names and brands to support FTX on its meteoric rise, including Tom Brady & Gisele Bundchen, Stephen Curry, David Ortiz, Trevor Lawrence, Kevin O'Leary, Udonis Haslem, as well as brand such as Major League Baseball, Golden State Warriors, FTX Arena & Miami Heat, Riot Games and much more. ABOUT BRETT HARRISON:Prior to joining FTX US, Brett was at Citadel Securities, where he managed technology for the firm's Options, ETF, OTC, and ADR trading globally. He began and spent the majority of his career at Jane Street, where he led the firm's algorithmic trading system development. He previously worked at Headlands Technologies as a senior software developer, and Brett received his Bachelor's and Masters in Computer Science from Harvard University. WHERE TO FIND BRETT HARRISON: → Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brett_FTXUS/WITHUM SMITH+BROWN SPONSORSHIP:→ http://www.withum.com/crypto SHOW NOTES:00:00:00 – Intro00:02:51 – Withum Sponsor 00:03:36 – Early Years 00:05:48 – Bitcoin Origin Story 00:08:55 – Tom Brady 00:15:18 – Super Bowl ad 00:19:46 – Recent Series A 00:31:32 – Backwardation 00:37:31 – FTX Platform Security Measures 00:39:37 – Coinbase 00:45:12 – Government Sanctions and Interventions 00:53:26 – Geopolitical 00:58:54 – FTX US Gaming division WHERE TO FIND JAY GOULD:→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaygould→ Newsletter: http://letter.jaygould.com → YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jaygouldshow WHERE TO FIND THE JAY GOULD SHOW:→ iTunes: