The Detailed Story of Changpeng Zhao
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10-Line Summary
1. CZ was born in China and immigrated to Canada after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. He studied computer science while working at McDonald's.
2. After dropping out of college, he earned an online degree and built a career in financial technology, developing order fulfillment system software in Tokyo.
3. After working at Bloomberg's New York office for four years, he founded an IT startup in Shanghai in 2005, growing it to 200 employees.
4. After discovering Bitcoin in 2013, he sold his Shanghai apartment and purchased Bitcoin for an average of $600, entering the crypto industry in earnest.
5. He gained experience as a CTO at Blockchain.info and OKCoin, but left due to cultural differences.
6. Founded Binance in 2017, raised $15 million through an ICO and rapidly grew it by issuing the BNB token.
7. Due to Chinese government regulations, the entire team relocated to Japan, and Binance rose to become the world's leading exchange.
Invested in 8.FTX, but sold it a year later, and his relationship with SBF became competitive.
9. He was indicted by the US DOJ for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and sentenced to four months in prison, but was pardoned by President Trump.
10. Currently, he develops an AI-based free education platform through Giggle Academy, pursuing the integration of crypto and education.
I knew it was a rivalry with SBF, but hearing it directly from them is surprising. I thought he was a huge fan of the Solana ecosystem. And since you said you were pursuing crypto and education, why did you abandon EDU?
