25 Changpeng Zhao (CEO of Binance) Fun Facts: How Much Money Does CZ Crypto Make? Net Worth, Age, Wife, Forbes, House, Kids, Instagram, Twitter, Pictures, Etc

Who is Changpeng Zhao? How is Changpeng Zhao so rich? Biography facts about CZ, the richest and most humble Crypto Billionaire in the world.

Changpeng Zhao commonly known as “CZ“, is a Chinese-Canadian business executive. Zhao is the founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume as of April 2018. CZ was born in Jiangsu, China, and moved to Canada at a young age with his family.

Zhao was previously a member of the team that developed Blockchain.info and also served as chief technology officer of OKCoin.

  • Changpeng Zhao, who goes by CZ, is the founder and CEO of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world.
  • The Chinese-Canadian coder cut his teeth building high-frequency trading systems for Wall Street’s flash boys.
  • In 2021, Binance facilitated trades worth over $9.5 trillion, over two-thirds of all trading volume handled by centralized crypto exchanges.
  • In February 2022, Binance announced that it plans to spend $200 million to buy a minority stake in Forbes via a SPAC transaction.
  • Binance has faced regulatory scrutiny in Hong Kong, Japan, the U.S., and the U.K. in the past year.

CZ is the richest man in Asia and the richest man in Crypto. However, there are many more things that we will discover from him in this article.

Profile Summary

Celebrated Name:CZ Crypto
Net Worth:$65 billion
Salary:$15 million annually
Full Real Name:Changpeng Zhao
Known For:Founder and CEO of Binance
Organization founded:Binance
Source of Wealth:Cryptocurrency exchange, Self Made
Residence:Singapore, Singapore, and Dubai
Birthday/Date of Birth:September 10, 1977
Age:44 years old
Birthplace:Jiangsu, China
Nationality/Citizenship:Canadian
Ethnicity:Chinese-Canadian
Zodiac Sign:Virgo
Height:5 feet 7 inches
Weight:75kg
University/Alma mater:McGill University
Profession:Business Executive
Religion:Christian
Startups:Fusion Systems; BijieTech; Binance
Former WorkMcdonald’s, Gas station, Bloomberg Tradebook, Blockchain.info, and OKCoin.
Parents:Not Known
Siblings:Not Known
Wife:Not Known
Children:Not Known
Instagram@changpengzhao
Twitter:@cz_binance
25 Changpeng Zhao (CEO of Binance) Fun Facts: How Much Money Does CZ Crypto Make? Net Worth, Age, Wife, Forbes, House, Kids, Instagram, Twitter, Pictures, Etc

1. Who is Changpeng Zhao?

Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ”, is a Chinese-born Canadian business executive. Zhao is the founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume as of April 2018.

2. Why is Changpeng Zhao famous?

Changpeng Zhao is one of the big names when it comes to cryptocurrency trading. The three richest and most popular on the list are Changpeng Zhao, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Brian Armstrong–all helm cryptocurrency exchanges. CZ is famous for founding Binance. Zhao was previously a member of the team that developed Blockchain.info and also served as chief technology officer of OKCoin. 

3. Where and when was Changpeng Zhao born?

Changpeng Zhao (Chinese: 赵长鹏; pinyin: Zhào Chángpéng), widely known online as CZ Crypto was born on September 10, 1977, in Jiangsu, China. In the late 1980s, he moved with his family to Canada when he was 12 years of age, settling in Vancouver, British Columbia.

4. What does Changpeng Zhao do for a living?

Changpeng Zhao widely known as CZ Crypto is the Chief Executive Officer of Binance. CZ used to work for OKCoin as CTO and for Blockchain.info.

5. How tall is Changpeng and what is his zodiac sign?

Zhao stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches. He weighs 75kg. He is a Christian and has Virgo as his zodiac sign.

6. Who are Changpeng Zhao’s parents?

His parents were both teachers in China. His father, a professor, worked as a university instructor before he was branded a “pro-bourgeois intellect” and exiled to rural areas shortly after Zhao’s birth. Whether he has siblings is also not known.

7. Who is Changpeng Zhao (CZ) wife?

Does Changpeng Zhao Crypto have children? There is no information relating to the name of CJ’s wife and as to whether he has children or not.

8. Changpeng Zhao was once working at a McDonald’s shop and a gas station.

Despite his parents being teachers, when they left China to come to Canada to express their capitalist views, the family struggled at first. As a kid, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) worked several typical teenage service jobs to try to help bring in money for the family including working at McDonald’s. But he holds a computer science degree from McGill University.

As a teenager in Vancouver, CZ pitched in to cover the household expenses, flipping burgers at McDonald’s and working overnight shifts at a gas station.

9. What school did Changpeng Zhao attend?

Zhao attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he majored in computer science.

10. Does Changpeng Zhao have a tattoo?

Has the Binance logo tattooed on his arm

11. He started coding at a younger age before entering a university.

Zhao started coding at about 16 and later completed a computer science degree in Montreal at McGill University.

12. He sold his Shanghai apartment for $1 million to invest in cryptocurrency after he was introduced to it by his friend during a poker game.

The story goes that CZ was playing poker with a couple of friends including Bobby Lee, founder of the formerly huge mining company BTCC (BTC China). And it was under Lee’s recommendation that CZ bought his first Bitcoin back in 2013 after this card game.

So in this way, he’s no different than most of us who first heard it from a friend and then went off on our own to explore and learn more about it. In 2014, he sold his Shanghai apartment for about $1 million to use this money on Bitcoin.

25 Changpeng Zhao (CEO of Binance) Fun Facts: How Much Money Does CZ Crypto Make? Net Worth, Age, Wife, Forbes, House, Kids, Instagram, Twitter, Pictures, Etc

13. Where does Changpeng Zhao (CZ) live?

Most people don’t know that not only is CZ Chinese, but he’s also Canadian. According to his Wikipedia profile, his family moved there when he was a kid. He even went to college there at McGill University in Montreal where he studied computer science.

Where can you find CZ? While not confirmed, we believe he has at least 2 citizenships too, in China and Canada. But in 2021, CZ bought a home in Dubai also.

14. CZ Crypto is the richest man in crypto and the richest man in Asia.

He’s both the richest man in crypto and the richest man in Asia. According to the Bloomberg analysis of Binance, CZ and his $96 billion got higher than anyone else in crypto including Sam Bankman-Fried at $15.5 billion, Brain Armstrong of Coinbase at $9.12 billion, or the Winklevoss twins who are ~$5 billion.

Not only that, he’s the wealthiest man in all of Asia surpassing Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries in India. And the truth is that CZ has even more money than this billionaire count as it did not count his crypto holdings.

15. What is Binance and when was it founded?

Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume founded by Changpeng Zhao. The company offers markets in more than 600 cryptocurrencies and had more than 90 million users at the end of 2021. Zhao, who was born in China and raised in Canada, founded the company in 2017.

16. Binance Took off in 8 Months.

When Binance started in July 2017, it only took until early 2018 for Binance to become the biggest exchange in the world. While some think Binance is doing it by bypassing regulations in some areas, it’s still an amazing accomplishment.

Binance now supports about 120 coins, working with 100 plus wallets and 240 trading pairs. “We’ve received over 5000 applications for coin listings,” boasts Zhao explaining that his team only welcomes projects that have strong credibility, user base, and liquidity. At 3%, the chances of getting in are lower than being accepted into Harvard.

17. Where is Binance headquarters located?

“Binance founder and CEO CZ’s connections to China remain murky. After his father had been exiled from China for being a “pro-bourgeois intellect” according to Wikipedia, CZ spent his teenage and college years in Canada. Binance too has only tenuous connections to China. The company is registered in the Cayman Islands, and, according to Wikipedia, relocated its headquarters from Shanghai to Japan in 2017 based on rumors of a China crypto crackdown.

18. CZ is a Degen and owns 2 cryptos besides Binance Exchange.

Yes, despite only holding Bitcoin and BNB, CZ is a crypto degen. He sold his apartment in 2013 so he would have more money to buy more Bitcoin. At the time Bitcoin was ~$600 each but dropped down to $200 before beginning its rise to the prices we see today.

Other than his equity in Binance, the only things CZ owns personally are his investments in Bitcoin and Binance Coin (BNB). Even so, these holdings, especially the BNB are probably pretty big.

19. What does CZ Love more CeFi or DeFi?

Expect 2022 to be a huge year in crypto so here’s something we all hope comes true.

CZ was quoted recently as saying if crypto has 350 million users now, he expects it to quadruple to 1.5 billion users in 2022. That’s a lot of growth in one year. He attributes it to growth in DeFi and NFTs.

20. CZ Idolizes Warren Buffet.

Did you know that CZ plans to give away most of his wealth?  Like many ultra-wealthy who decide to go into philanthropy, CZ intends to follow that path. He said it would not surprise him if he gives away 90%, 95%, or even 99% like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are doing. 

We don’t know if he’s ever admitted this publicly, but he’s a big fan and admirer of Warren Buffett and has one of Buffett’s biographies on his recommended reading list for entrepreneurs.

21. CZ has All his Eggs in One Basket.

CZ Owns No Stock or Equity in Any Other Company, Crypto, or Project. Changpeng Zhao (CZ) says that other than the coins he discloses in the next fact, he owns no stock in any company publicly or privately other than Binance. 

Also, he does not own part of any crypto project although Binance Labs and Binance Ventures have investments in other projects. All of those are owned by the company. CZ has no personal investments like this. 

This is surprising considering he helped build trading systems to trade in Japanese stocks as one of his first jobs out of college, but he says no. Only Binance.

22. Zhao has founded various trading platforms and has worked for top crypto and trading companies.

After graduating from university, Zhao received an internship in Tokyo working for a subcontractor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, developing software for matching trade orders. He then worked full-time for four years at Bloomberg Tradebook where he was a developer of futures trading software.

In 2005, he moved to Shanghai where he founded Fusion Systems, a trading system for brokers known for “some of the fastest high-frequency trading systems for brokers.”

Beginning in 2013, he worked for various cryptocurrency projects including Blockchain.info, and also served briefly as the chief technology officer of OKCoin.

Starting in September 2015, Zhao created an exchange development company, BijieTech, which provided cloud-based trading technology to a number of Asian exchanges. When Zhao established Binance in July 2017, he left BijieTech and populated the senior ranks of Binance with senior developers and engineers from BijieTech. He also briefly served as the CTO of OKCoin before BijieTech, which allowed him to gain experience in senior technical roles.

After launching the cryptocurrency exchange in July 2017, Binance was able to raise $15 million in an initial coin offering and the exchange started trading eleven days later. In less than eight months, Zhao grew Binance into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, as of April 2018. Zhao also launched the blockchain network Binance Smart Chain[when?] that has made a significant contribution to the development of the decentralized finance industry.

In February 2018, Forbes Magazine placed him third on their list of “The Richest People In Cryptocurrency” at an estimated $1.1-2 billion.

23. Zhao’s public opinions and views

In a now-deleted tweet, on August 26, 2021, Zhao came under public scrutiny when he said “poor people try to say bad things about Binance”.

In an interview with The New York Times, Zhao said people are getting into crypto as they see it grow, “trade it and make money off it as opposed to using it”, but that the market will always self-correct.

On April 6, 2021, Zhao told Bloomberg Markets that nearly 100% of his liquid net worth was in the form of cryptocurrency.

In an interview published on November 16, 2021, Zhao said he plans to donate up to 99% of his wealth, with the intention to follow the feat of other magnates. “I intend to donate most of my wealth, as many other entrepreneurs or founders have done. From Rockefeller to today. I intend to donate 90%, 95%, or 99% of my wealth.”

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zhao rejected political pressure to ban Russian users from Binance after speculation that Russian oligarchs may be using cryptocurrency to evade international sanctions. Zhao cited “financial freedom” as the reason for his decision.

25 Changpeng Zhao (CEO of Binance) Fun Facts: How Much Money Does CZ Crypto Make? Net Worth, Age, Wife, Forbes, House, Kids, Instagram, Twitter, Pictures, Etc

24. What is Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s net worth?

Forbes estimates Changpeng Zhao as the 20th richest person in the world with a net worth of $65 billion. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zhao is ranked 13th richest in the world with a net worth estimated at $96 billion as of March 1, 2022.

New estimates claim the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, is the world’s richest crypto billionaire, with a net worth rivaling the sums amassed by tech billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Bloomberg calculated that Zhao’s net worth is $96 billion, which would make him the 11th richest person in the world. On the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zhao, known as “CZ” in crypto circles, is now sandwiched between No. 12, Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, and No. 10, Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, who’s worth an estimated $107 billion.

Bloomberg says its estimate is based on Zhao’s stake in Binance, reporting that the exchange generated upwards of $20 billion in revenue in 2021 and that Zhao owns 90% of Binance’s shares, according to a review of the firm’s regulatory filings.

Zhao’s net worth maybe even be higher than $96 billion since Bloomberg did not account for Zhao’s personal holdings of Bitcoin and Binance Coin, the cryptocurrency issued by Binance. Factoring in Zhao’s personal crypto holdings would likely give him a fortune on par with that of Bill Gates, the world’s fourth-richest person with a $135 billion net worth, and Zuckerberg, the world’s fifth-richest with $124 billion.

Zhao has not publicly commented on the size of his personal crypto holdings, but he told the Associated Press last November that his personal holdings make up the “majority” of his net worth.

25. Social media accounts

Twitter: @cz_binance

Instagram: @changpengzhao

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