Changpeng Zhao

I can get a job on Wall Street again.

That confidence came from what?

Your just pure skill set and knowledge?

Yeah.

By the time I learned about Bitcoin in 2013, between 2001 and 2005, I was working at Bloomberg in New York.

I was doing entrepreneurship for eight years afterwards.

I thought my experience and everything else had increased.

My value should have increased.

At the time when you sold your apartment and you quit your job, how much did you have in liquid cash?

did you have some money or not very much because i put most of my cash into the company that was like that was working before and the rest the cash was in the apartment less than a half a million bucks oh way less uh actually probably much less uh the department money was pretty much all i had the reason why i say this is it's not like that was a you made the decision because you had a couple million dollars in a bank from a previous exit oh no you're not rich at this time no no no yeah okay

That's a risky decision right there, but you trusted your ability on the way to work and the skill set that you had and the knowledge that you had.

I didn't need the $900,000 to maintain my lifestyle.

I can work for income that will maintain my lifestyle.

You were a minimalist even at that time.

Yeah, I wouldn't call myself a minimalist.

I'm just pretty basic, right?

So I wouldn't like, you know, if you look at my table, it's got all kind of camera gadgets.

I wouldn't like minimal, like very clean.

That's how I like think of minimalist.

I'm just a normal basic guy.