This was followed by his entry into the crypto realm in 2013, with his interest in the sector piqued after he studied the now famous Bitcoin whitepaper attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto. He then went on to work as a programmer developing financial trading systems, which heralded the start of a career trajectory that ended with him launching a business of his own in the same domain some years later. While he was born in China in 1977, CZ migrated with his family to Canada in the late 1980s, which is where he ended up securing a bachelor's degree in computer science as well.
Photo via Binance/Medium.ĬZ's commitment to Binance can perhaps be better understood when one looks at how he came to launch and lead the business to what it is today. "For me, this logo is meaningful enough to stay with me for the rest of my life."Ĭhangpeng Zhao (center) with Luke Wagman(left) and Gareth Lai (right) in 2018. "This is the only tattoo I have, and I don't plan to get anymore," CZ declares. But such headwinds don't seem to have shaken CZ's belief in what he has built, and I personally get the clearest indication of this when he tells me about tattooing the Binance logo on his arm. That, in effect, appears to remain the ethos with which CZ continues to run the show at Binance today, which, while soaring to greater heights as a global business, is also battling several regulatory challenges in different countries around the world. And we are serious about building a lasting brand." Zhao, or CZ as he's more commonly referred to, went on to tell me that he had got the tattoo in 2018, a year after he had launched Binance, and in a Medium post commemorating the event, he painted it as a demonstration of his loyalty to the enterprise he had built- as he put it then: "We -Binance- are here to stay. Farooq Salik/Entrepreneur Middle East Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao One of the first things I noticed about Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao when I met with him in October last year was the fact that he had tattooed the diamond-shaped logo of his company -which, by the way, is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world today- on his right forearm.
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