Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of Binance, opens up on why he's always bullish on Twitter, how a single tweet lined up with Bitcoin's 20% pump right before Trump's crypto speech, and why he believes crypto is still nowhere near saturated with less than 1% global penetration.
He also gets candid about growing up a second-generation immigrant in Canada, surviving the FTX collapse and a Binance hack, and his contrarian take on why the traditional education system is broken.
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0:00 Introduction
2:01 Life on the Road
3:33 Who Are You?
4:07 Becoming a Top-20 Billionaire
5:14 Growing Up Poor in Canada
6:45 His Sister's Career
7:35 Avoiding "Third Gen Degenerate"
8:07 Binance's First Day
10:05 Sponsor: Variational & Bitwise
10:58 The Early Team
12:32 What Hardworking Means
13:35 Misconceptions About Binance
14:24 Why Listed Projects Disappoint
16:54 Can Retail Ever Win?
18:58 Origin of the "4" Meme
20:55 Tweeting "4" and Meaning It
21:29 The FTX Tweet, Full Story
25:13 Hardest Period of His Life
26:05 Prison, Not Knowing When
27:48 Did Anyone Disappear?
28:31 Sponsor: Kast
29:18 The Pardon Process
32:20 Pardon: Politics or Justice?
34:32 Advice for Elon
35:44 Bybit Hack: Was Ben Right?
36:42 2019 Hack and the Red Button
41:18 Hyperliquid as a Threat?
45:07 Why Hype Isn't on Binance
46:31 The 10/10 Crash Villain
50:47 Tweeting "4" on the Crash?
51:31 Sponsor: Jupiter & Ethena
52:14 His Crypto Legacy
53:56 Giggle Academy
1:00:56 Can CZ Move the Market?
1:03:30 Outro
