Changpeng Zhao
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I started a company with six other older guys in Shanghai in 2005.
did that for eight years, and then I came across Bitcoin in 2013.
And then I was like, this is the future technology.
So at that time, it was actually pretty interesting because I think there's three big technologies in my life.
There's internet, there's blockchain.
And at the time, I didn't know what was next, right?
At the time, I thought the next one was going to be like 10, 15 years later.
Now we know it's AI.
So I think this is the three big technologies in my life.
When the internet was happening, I was too young to really do anything meaningful with it.
In the blockchain, when blockchain is happening, we got lucky.
We founded a platform that's impactful, that's useful.
And then, so yeah, that's kind of how I came to be.
Well, if I was in high school with you, say you're 14, 15 years old, who were you in high school?
We're in a class together.
Who's CZ?
I was a normal kid.
I was a bit geeky.
I played a lot of sports.
I was like an Asian kid in Canada that played volleyball.