Let me tell you his incredible story.

Were you shocked that it got so big?

Yes, I was Sesay 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 Cze 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 like really great naming and two of my friends were talking about this is the internet money for the internet and I was like this is this is fascinating, most humans would keep playing poker and make fun of Bitcoin but says he 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.

A few months later he became convinced, I became convinced that Cryptocurrency is gonna be the future and it's gonna stay when I first used the email um you know, I knew that he was going to stay, it was so much easier when you first used social media, he just knew and when 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 $1 million.

And what did his poker friends think?

Most of my friends thought I was crazy because I was selling an apartment in Shanghai to go into into crypto and I was quitting my job so I was jobless homeless by most people's definitions.

That is crazy.

Mhm.

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.

So my mom's like you stupid kid and 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 gonna be a huge future.

So I told myself I'm not gonna 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 finance 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 10 exchange in three years, but we got there in six months in the top one.

Finance became so big that it made Cuz 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.

Um I focus on building products.

People use how to make that the most efficient, most impactful thing for the world.

This story is not about crypto and it's not about making money.

In fact, caesar 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've got to have conviction that it will work.

Even when your mom thinks what you're doing is stupid when you know you're right, you've just got to have the stamina to last until the rest of the population catches off.

Mhm.

Sesay 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.

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