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Changpeng Zhao

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2157 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

If it's such a simple thing, why didn't the other guys do it?

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

I think a lot of people have in their heads that they want to maximize their cut on each transaction.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

What you want to do is actually you want to minimize your cut on each transaction and you want to increase the number of transactions.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

So you multiply the scale.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

Many people just can't handle it.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

Many people just want to take the maximum that's possible, that's ours.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

But for example, if you look at some of the largest businesses, Google,

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

Google makes fees on advertising, but they provide a lot of free infrastructure in the internet space.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

The time clock that we use is probably synced with a Google time server, and that's completely free.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

The DNS services is completely free.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

So they provide a lot of infrastructure to run the internet completely free.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

They just make money from advertising, like from some ads.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

And now the ads coverage is more spread across different products.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

But for years, they only advertise on search.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

Gmail was no ads.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

Google Maps was no ads for years.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

But they were able to make enough money to sustain themselves.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

We were in a very lucky, same fortunate situation where

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

our revenues from a small amount of business, from a few businesses, were able to sustain us to provide more free services to everyone so that we can grow the industry, we can grow the crypto industry.

PBD Podcast
The $110 Billion Dollar Man - Binance Founder Opens Up | PBD #797

And so if you provide a value of 10 and you charge only two and you can sustain yourself and you can scale, your business will grow really fast.