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 Introduction Binance , one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, was founded in 2017 by Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ." Since its inception, Binance has revolutionized the cryptocurrency trading landscape, offering a platform that provides a wide range of services, including trading, investing, and various financial products. This article delves into the background of Changpeng Zhao, his journey in the cryptocurrency industry, and the impact he has had on the blockchain ecosystem. Early Life and Education Changpeng Zhao was born on September 10, 1977, in Jiangsu, China. At the age of 12, his family emigrated to Canada, where he grew up in Vancouver. Zhao showed an early interest in technology and programming, which led him to pursue a degree in computer science at McGill University in Montreal. After completing his education, Zhao began his career in the technology sector, working for several companies, including a job at a telecommunications firm, w...

Jeff Bezos, born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a prominent American entrepreneur, best known as the founder of Amazon.com, Inc. His innovative approach and relentless focus on customer satisfaction have transformed the way people shop and interact with technology. Early Life and Education Bezos displayed an early interest in technology and entrepreneurship. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. After college, he worked on Wall Street in various roles, including at Fitel, Bankers Trust, and D. E. Shaw & Co. Founding Amazon In 1994, Bezos left his lucrative job in New York to pursue his vision of creating an online bookstore. He launched Amazon from his garage in Seattle, initially focusing on selling books. The company's innovative approach, including personalized recommendations and customer reviews, quickly garnered attention. Under Bezos's leadership, Amazon expanded its product ra...

Richard Branson, in full Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, Shamley Green, Surrey, England), British entrepreneur and adventurer, head of Virgin Group Ltd., known for his publicity stunts and also for setting records in powerboat racing and hot-air ballooning. Early life Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on July 18, 1950, in Surrey, England. His father, Edward James Branson, worked as a barrister. His mother, Eve Branson, was employed as a flight attendant. Branson, who struggled with dyslexia, had a hard time with educational institutions. He nearly failed out of the all-boys Scaitcliffe School, which he attended until the age of 13. He then transferred to Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. Still struggling, Branson dropped out at the age of 16 to start a youth-culture magazine called Student.  Companies  Student magazine In1960, Richard Branson started at age 16 with his magazine, called Student, which interviewed celebrities and ...

Elon Musk, , South African-born American entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic-payment firm PayPal and formed SpaceX, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was also one of the first significant investors in, as well as chief executive officer of, the electric car manufacturer Tesla. Early Life Musk was born to a South African father and a Canadian mother. He displayed an early talent for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he created a video game and sold it to a computer magazine. In 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa because he was unwilling to support apartheid through compulsory military service and because he sought the greater economic opportunities available in the United States. Family Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, is a Canadian model and the oldest woman to star in a Covergirl campaign. When Musk was growing up, she worked five jobs at one point to support her family. Musk’s father, Errol Musk, is a wealthy South African engineer. Mu...

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on innovation and growth. Early life and education  Clayton Christensen was born on April 6, 1952, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of eight children born to Robert M. Christensen (1926–1976) and his wife, Verda Mae Christensen (née Fuller; 1922–2004).He grew up in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City and attended West High School, where he was student body president. Christensen and his siblings were raised as members of the LDS Church. Christensen was an avid basketball player who stood 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall, and later became the starting center on the men's basketball team during his time at the University of Oxford. After graduating from high school in 1970, Christensen was accepted to Harvard University, Yale University, and Brigham Young University (BYU). He "decided to make th...

 Sheldon Adelson  an American entrepreneur , investor, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful casino owners in the world. Sheldon Adelson is the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. As of January 2018, Adelson’s net worth is estimated to $40 billion. He is also the owner of the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Sheldon Adelson also owns the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Early Life Sheldon Adelson was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the middle of the Great Depression. His father, an immigrant from Lithuania, was a taxi driver who sold advertisements on the side. His mother, an immigrant from Wales, was a business owner who ran a small knitting shop. His parents instilled in him the importance of working hard at an early age, encouraging him to get a job the day he turned 12 years old. The first job he ever had was selling newspapers on the street corners; it didn’t pay much money, but it did...

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur , banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. Early life Yunus was born in 28th June, 1940 in the village of Bathua, in Hathazari, Chittagong, the business centre of what was then Eastern Bengal. He was the third of 14 children of whom five died in infancy. His father was a successful goldsmith who always encouraged his sons to seek higher education. But his biggest influence was his mother, Sufia Khatun, who always helped any poor that knocked on their door. This inspired him to commit himself to eradication of poverty. His early childhood years were spent in the village. In 1947, his family moved to the city of Chittagong, where his father had the jewelery business. Education  Yunus first attended Chittagong Collegiate School, then Chittagong College and eventually Dhaka University. He earned an underg...

  Jack Ma, originally Ma Yun Chinese entrepeneur who was head of the Alibaba Group, which comprised several of China’s most popular Web sites , including the business-to-business marketplace Alibaba.com and the shopping site Taobao.com .  Early Life  Jack Ma was born on September 10, 1964, as Ma Yun in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Jack Ma started studying English at a very young age. At the age of 9 years, Jack Ma travelled 27 kilometres on his bicycle to guide tourists so that he can practise English. Jack Ma further became pen pals with a foreigner who nicknamed him Jack as the Chinese name was hard for him to pronounce.     For getting admitted to college, Ma took three years to clear the Chinese entrance examinations as they were held once in a year. Jack Ma attended  Hangzhou Normal University (earlier Hangzhou Teacher's Institute). In 1998, Jack Ma graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. After completing his graduation, Jack Ma start...

Pierre Morad Omidyar  is an American billionaire entrepreneur , software engineer and philanthropist. He is the founder of eBay where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Early Life Pierre Morad Omidyar was born on June 21, 1967, in Paris, France. Unlike many other high-tech entrepreneurs, Omidyar didn't set out to become an Internet tycoon. He moved to Maryland as a child when his father accepted a residency at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. He wrote his first computer program at age 14, to catalog books for the school library. He graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree in computer science and went to work for a company that developed Macintosh software. Later, he worked for the Apple subsidiary Claris and then helped start a software company in 1991 called Ink Development Corp. The company later changed its name to eShop and was purchased by Microsoft in 1996....

A computer hacker is a computer expert who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means. You should know about the 10 most notorious hackers in the world  1.Kevin Mitnick A seminal figure in American hacking, Kevin Mitnick got his     start as a teen. In 1981, he was charged with stealing computer manuals from Pacific Bell. In 1982, he hacked the North American Defense Command (NORAD), an achievement that inspired the 1983 film War Games. In 1989, he hacked Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) network and made copies of their software. Because DEC was a leading computer manufacturer at the time, this act put Mitnick on the map. He was later arrested, convicted and sent to prison. During his conditional release, he hacked Pacific Bell's voicemail systems. Throughout his hacking career, Mitnick never exploited the access and data he obtained. It's widely believed that he once obtained fu...

 Nikola Tesla, (born July 9/10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia]—died January 7, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.), Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology. Early Life  Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia, on July 10, 1856. Tesla was one of five children, including siblings Dane, Angelina, Milka and Marica. Tesla's interest in electrical invention was spurred by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who invented small household appliances in her spare time while her son was growing up. Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla, was a Serbian orthodox priest and a writ...

Alan Mathison Turing  was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence . Early Life English scientist Alan Turing was born Alan Mathison Turing on June 23, 1912, in Maida Vale, London, England. At a young age, he displayed signs of high intelligence, which some of his teachers recognized, but did not necessarily respect. When Turing attended the well-known independent Sherborne School at the age of 13, he became particularly interested in math and science. After Sherborne, Turing enrolled at King's College (University of Cambridge) in Cambridge, England, studying there from 1931 ...

Colonel Harland David Sanders was an American businessman, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC) and later acting as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company. The title 'colonel' was honorary – a Kentucky Colonel not the military rank. The Early Years Harland Sanders was born on a farm in Indiana. Lying about his age, he joined the U.S. Army in 1906 and was stationed in Cuba. His rank of Colonel did not come from his military career, however. That honorary title was given to him twice, once by Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon in 1935, and again in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby. While not as flamboyant and certainly without much of the drama, in many ways, Harland’s childhood was very similar to that of one of his early franchisees, Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s. Harland grew up poor and needed to become self-sufficient at an early age. Following hi...