Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia

By David Morris

When does a philosophy become a conspiracy?

In 2024, Sam Bankman-Fried -- once hailed as the future of finance and one of the richest men in America -- was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $11 billion and collapsing over a hundred companies. Stealing the Future is the inside story of that unraveling, told by a member of the CoinDesk team that first broke the case.

But this is more than a true crime story.

It's a journey into the tangled web of tech-utopianism, libertarian idealism, and the seductive ideologies of Silicon Valley -- from Effective Altruism to transhumanism -- that helped cloak one of the biggest financial frauds of the 21st century.

As these philosophies increasingly fuel the global far right, Stealing the Future asks: what happens when abstract theories gain real power -- and who's really paying the price?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1917516088
• ISBN13: 9781917516082
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Repeater
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"