Author: Quartz

Comedian Larry David isn’t interested in great inventions throughout history—not the wheel, the fork, the toilet, American democracy, the light bulb, lunar travel, or the portable music player. And David, creator of the television series Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, is equally dismissive of cryptocurrency in a pitch meeting for the crypto exchange FTX. “Eh, I don’t think so,” he says. “And I’m never wrong about this stuff.” As his minute-long Super Bowl ad spot comes to a close, the words “Don’t be like Larry” pop on the screen. The FTX spot was a clear appeal to people’s fear of missing out, or FOMO, and it wasn’t the only…