Changpeng Zhao

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.