TechFlow News, September 28 — Regarding the information that Zhang Yufeng, an alumnus of the 2018 International Trade program at Shenzhen University who donated 50 million RMB in his personal name, claimed to be a former FTX employee, multiple ex-FTX employees and senior managers told TechFlow that no such person existed at FTX previously. They also pointed out that the experiences he described on a podcast differ significantly from actual internal conditions at FTX and contain numerous factual inaccuracies.
According to reports, Zhang Yufeng (online alias "octopus") stated on a podcast that within less than a year, he seized two trading opportunities, rapidly rising into the top 100 traders on FTX's leaderboard. Through this achievement, he claimed to have met FTX CEO Sam (commonly known as SBF) and subsequently joined FTX’s trading department.
