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hey
this is the richest guy in the world
from crypto
and you don't even know him hi my name
is cece he made over 60 billion dollars
but his mom still called him stupid
let me tell you his incredible story
were you shocked that it got so big yes
i was
cz is just a normal guy he was born in
china grew up in vancouver canada and
now lives in dubai
but his incredible story starts at a
poker table in 2013.
he was playing poker with a few of his
friends when one of them said hey have
you heard about the bitcoin the bitcoin
back then was new and cz didn't know
about it so when i first heard about
bitcoin i was like bitcoin what is it
the name sounded good bitcoin that was a
like really great naming and two of my
friends were talking about this is the
internet money for the internet
and i was like uh this is this is
fascinating
most humans would keep playing poker and
make fun of bitcoin but cz did not
he wanted to understand it
he downloaded the white paper of bitcoin
printed it and read every single word
this white paper is only nine pages long
but i knew this is the future for money
few months later he became convinced i
became convinced that cryptocurrency is
going to be the future and it's going to
stay when i first used the email um you
know i knew that it was going to stay it
was so much easier when you first used
social media you just knew and when when
i came across bitcoin i knew this was
going to stay
his conviction was so so strong that he
sold his entire apartment and invested
it in bitcoin one million dollars and
what did his poker friends think most of
my friends thought i was crazy because i
was selling my apartment in shanghai uh
to go into or into crypto and i was
quitting my job so i was jobless
homeless
uh by most people's definitions that is
crazy
and they were right he was crazy in the
next two months bitcoin crashed by 70
and he lost 700 000
even his own mother told him he was a
stupid kid for wasting so much money uh
so my mom's like you stupid kid and um
like why couldn't you be like other
people get a nice job in a corporate
bitcoin cryptocurrencies back in
2013-2014 for me was one of those really
unique opportunities where it was early
stage only a small number of people got
it and it's going to be a huge future so
i told myself i'm not going to miss it
that was an opportunity of a lifetime
he stopped playing poker he stopped all
his hobbies he quit his job he left his
friends and spent nine a.m to midnight
seven days a week for five years working
on blockchain technology
eventually he started a crypto exchange
called binance where people can buy and
sell crypto to each other and that
blew up
in five years finance became the biggest
crypto exchange in the world with more
than 100 million users were you shocked
that it got so big yes i was
originally when we started i told my
team let's aim for like the worst top
ten exchange in three years but we got
there in six months in the top one
finance became so big that it made cz
the richest man in crypto worth over 60
billion dollars in five years how do you
feel about having so much money i don't
think money is the most important factor
i don't focus on that i focus on
building products people use how to make
that the most efficient most impactful
thing for the world
story is not about crypto and it's not
about making money in fact cz doesn't
care about money look at his clothes
priceless he has no fancy clothes or
cars and he plans to donate his wealth
to charity this story is about
conviction if you're starting a company
or a youtube channel or a new career you
gotta have conviction that it will work
even when your mom thinks what you're
doing is stupid
when you know you're right you just
gotta have the stamina to last until the
rest of the population catches on
cz had conviction in bitcoin became the
richest person and changed the world of
finance now imagine what you can do if
you truly believed in something
we're done thank you we're done
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