Information for FTX Future Fund

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Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2019 4 Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried
2020 4 Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried
2021 5 Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nick Beckstead, Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried
2022 9 Avital Balwit, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Ketan Ramakrishnan, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Nick Beckstead, Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried, William MacAskill

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2020-01-01 2 Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried
2021-01-01 2 Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried
2022-01-01 3 Nick Beckstead, Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2019-04-01 4 4 0 Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried
2021-11-01 5 1 0 Nick Beckstead
2022-02-01 8 3 0 Ketan Ramakrishnan, Leopold Aschenbrenner, William MacAskill
2022-07-13 9 1 0 Avital Balwit
2022-11-10 0 0 -9 Avital Balwit, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Ketan Ramakrishnan, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Nick Beckstead, Nishad Singh, Sam Bankman-Fried, William MacAskill

List of people (9 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Avital Balwit Team member 2022-07-13 2022-11-10 [1] Resigned upon FTX bankruptcy
Nick Beckstead CEO 2021-11-01 2022-11-10 [2], [3], [4] Resigned upon FTX bankruptcy
Leopold Aschenbrenner Team member 2022-02-01 2022-11-10 full-time [2], [5], [4] Resigned upon FTX bankruptcy
William MacAskill Team member 2022-02-01 2022-11-10 [2], [4] Resigned upon FTX bankruptcy
Ketan Ramakrishnan Team member 2022-02-01 2022-11-10 [2], [4] Resigned upon FTX bankruptcy
Sam Bankman-Fried Chief Executive Officer 2019-04-01 2022-11-10 [2], [6]
Caroline Ellison 2019-04-01 2022-11-10 [2]
Gary Wang 2019-04-01 2022-11-10 [2]
Nishad Singh Director Of Engineering 2019-04-01 2022-11-10 [2], [7]

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