Zhu said he was ignoring the criticism. He responded to a negative Wall Street Journal article on Twitter: Quote John F. Kennedy: “In the last ten years we have chosen to go to the moon, not because anything else is easy, but because it is difficult.”
“I have already created 75 jobs,” he said over dinner in Singapore. “At least these people like me.”
This month, Open Exchange announced its own cryptocurrency called OX, like Animals. Prices skyrocketed within a few days. “Feeling like the early 3AC vibes again,” Davis wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “Nothing can match the energy of a startup.”
Mr. Davis has privately encouraged Three Arrows' creditors to trade their bankruptcy claims on an open exchange. In January he invited creditors Participate in the “Extraordinary 3AC Creditors Meeting.” But two people familiar with the matter said Davis kept talking on the phone. He ended the session just as someone was about to ask a question.
Last month in Barcelona, Mr. Davis seemed relaxed as he gushed about the “great cafes” on Las Ramblas, the busy thoroughfare that cuts through the city centre. One Saturday night, he had a late dinner at Els Pescador, a seafood restaurant near the beach, and ordered oysters, croquettes, local wine, and three rounds of whiskey.
By the end of the meal, Davis was talking about business ideas. He said the company has inquired about opening a chicken restaurant without a brick-and-mortar location in Dubai, perhaps in the form of a cloud kitchen. For a while, he and Mr. Zhu considered making a film about Do Kwon and Luna's fall. “Our idea was basically to create work that would create empathy,” he says. “We were planning on producing it at Sundance or something with the whole team.”
