Changpeng Zhao
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And put the guys into a room and says, this is what we're going to build.
And I told him, look,
I've been, for the last, I don't know, 17 years in my career, I've always been working on exchange systems.
And now I think this is the time to build it.
If I don't do this, I'm going to keep thinking about this for the rest of my life, right?
So if I don't do this today, I might try again two years, five years, 10 years later.
So it's something that we'll have to do sooner or later.
And now might just be the right time to give it a shot.
None of the other people objected.
Everyone's like, yeah, let's go.
Was everybody in?
So nobody's like, I don't know, CZ, whether you're going to be able to pull this off.
Nobody doubted you.
On my team, nobody doubted.
Everyone's just like, okay, sounds good.
Let's go for it.
But when I tried to raise money from VCs, no one invested.
Everyone's like, no, no, the exchange space is too crowded.
There's too many exchanges out there already.
You can't do it.