arly life and education[edit]
Bankman-Fried was born in 1992 on the campus of Stanford University into a family of academics. He is the son of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, both professors at Stanford Law School.[2] His aunt, Linda P. Fried, is the current dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[10] He attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high school students.[2]
From 2010 to 2014, Bankman-Fried attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] There, he lived in a coeducational group house called Epsilon Theta.[2] In 2012, he blogged about utilitarianism, baseball, and politics.[5][2] In 2014, he graduated with a degree in physics and a minor in mathematics.[2][11][12]
