All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · 2026-02-10 · 117 min · 25,549 words

CZ's Untold Story: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Binance's Founder

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CZ, welcome to the All-In podcast. Well, thanks for having me here. It's really, really great to see you. It's a pleasure. I want to go all the way back to the beginning because I think a lot of people don't really know your background the way that they probably should.

The part of the background that I really care about is there's parts of your early journey in Canada which is very similar to mine. You worked at McDonald's, I worked at Burger King. Okay. But before that, your parents were able to emigrate from China right around Tiananmen Square, right? My father went to you uh Canada to study in 1984, that's five years before Tiananmen Square.

How did that come about? So your father stayed in Canada once he went there or no? Uh he vi he could visit us every one twice a year, basically, but he would most of the time he was in Canada. And um yeah, so And he was a teacher in China? He was a teacher professor he he was a pro professor in China.

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