just learned that caroline ellison's mom is actually a pretty prominent economist at MIT. like, both her parents teach there - her dad Glenn is a professor who even headed the econ department, and her mom Sara Fisher Ellison is a senior lecturer. they co-author research papers together on stuff like e-commerce and market dynamics. kind of wild that someone with that kind of intellectual pedigree ends up at the center of the whole FTX collapse, right? caroline ellison's mother must have been sitting in that courtroom watching her daughter get sentenced to 2 years in prison. the judge did at least let her serve near Boston where the family is. her parents have basically stayed out of the media since all this went down - can't really blame them. just interesting how different some people's lives turn out from what you'd expect based on their background.