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Changpeng Zhao's Reading List & Book Recommendations

Changpeng Zhaobook recommendations

Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ", is the founder and CEO of Binance.

Quotes & Sources

Changpeng Zhao on Made to Stick
"Informs a lot of our public outreach in terms of making our services more essential for our users."

Changpeng Zhao on The Infinite Game
"Gives a perspective on long term vision. It will broaden your horizons and views."

Changpeng Zhao on Sapiens
"Gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do."

Changpeng Zhao on The Advantage
"The competitive advantage of successful companies lies more on how healthy and well a company’s organization behaves and operates."

Changpeng Zhao on The Starfish and the Spider
"Talks about operations in decentralized organizations, especially compared to centralized ones."

Changpeng Zhao on Give and Take
"Good read. Givers, fake givers, matchers and takers. Why givers win."

Changpeng Zhao on Super Pumped
"Regardless of how you view Uber, this book is a great read."

Changpeng Zhao on The Changing World Order
"Goes into a lot of details about how money works (or doesn't)."

Changpeng Zhao on Range
"[About] how many great inventions happen at the intersection of disciplines."

Changpeng Zhao on Work Rules!
"Talks about work-related insights derived from the author’s time at Google."

Changpeng Zhao on Antifragile
"We definitely want Binance to be antifragile. This book may explain why we make some of the decisions we make."

Changpeng Zhao on Loonshots
"After reading this book, you will understand why we tolerate failures at Binance, and more importantly, what types of failures we tolerate or not."

Changpeng Zhao on Team of Teams
"I believe every modern organization should be run under these principles."

Changpeng Zhao on Economics in One Lesson
"There are few books that better encapsulate the inner workings of economics than this one."

Changpeng Zhao on Blitzscaling
"Has been very helpful to Binance as we chart our growth as an organization."

Changpeng Zhao on Skin in the Game
"I see this book as a complement to 'Economics in One Lesson.' And it's an excellent read on its own."

Changpeng Zhao on Contagious
"A must-read for all product designers and marketers, and a lot of people in our team have taken the lessons in this book to heart."

Changpeng Zhao on Crossing the Chasm
"Has helped me hone my message with regard to talking about Binance to the world."

Changpeng Zhao on The Culture Code
"At Binance, we constantly strive to build a great culture, and we constantly draw lessons from this book’s case studies of admirable organizations."

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