Changpeng Zhao

And then also blockchain info at the time didn't have a company.

They don't use bank accounts.

They don't have an office.

They pay everybody in Bitcoin.

When we grow into like 18 people, the company just pay every month, send some Bitcoin to all the employees.

It's up to them to how they handle that Bitcoin, those Bitcoins.

They didn't have an office.

They didn't even have the company back then.

So it's just like 18 people working together and they're still growing.

So I learned a lot of different stuff about blockchain, about crypto during that time.

Yeah.

Got it.

So the whole idea of not having a headquarters kind of come from the experience here that you don't need it?

That definitely contributed to like when early on in Binance, I said, look, we don't need a headquarter.

We know we can pay everybody in crypto.

Yeah.

Got it.

So then from there, eight months later, what do you do next?

I actually joined a Bitcoin exchange in China, OKCoin at the time.

And then I learned a bit about how exchanges operate.