{"id":600230,"date":"2026-04-22T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:18:15","slug":"ftx-bankruptcy-liquidators-disposed-of-cursor-stake-for-200k-now-worth-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600230\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX Bankruptcy Liquidators Disposed of Cursor Stake for $200k, Now Worth Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Ahead of what is being hyped as the largest initial public offering (IPO) of all time, Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8220;SpaceXAI&#8221; has acquired the rights to acquire AI startup Cursor later this year for $60B, or pay $10B for a joint coding collaboration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bankruptcy Bungle: Via subsidiary Alamada Research, FTX \u2013 the insolvent crypto exchange formerly operated convicted fraudster Sam Bankman Fried \u2013 misappropriated $400k of customer funds to purchase a ~5% equity stake in Cursor parent company Anysphere during the company&#8217;s pre-seed round in April 2022. One year later, bankruptcy liquidators disposed of Alameda&#8217;s stake at a 50% loss for $200k to unspecified buyers. If completed, SpaceXAI&#8217;s purchase option for the AI firm would value the investment in the billions, equating to a massive loss for creditors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of what is being hyped as the largest initial public offering (IPO) of all time, Elon Musk&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[261161,28,3052,11,11896],"class_list":{"0":"post-600230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-alamada-research","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cursor","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-initial-public-offering"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}