Changpeng Zhao's Book Recommendations
Changpeng Zhao, often known as "CZ", is the founder and CEO of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He is a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency industry. Based on his book recommendations, he seems interested in economics, business strategy, and organizational growth.
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Sapiens
"3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success."
tweet View source ↗"Gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do."
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The Starfish and the Spider
"There have been many "bitcoin is banned" rumors / news / variations in the past. Recommend anyone interested to read the "Starfish and the Spider" book. It explains the effects of "banning" in decentralized world well. I can't repeat it."
tweet View source ↗"Talks about operations in decentralized organizations, especially compared to centralized ones."
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Super Pumped
"Regardless of how you view Uber, this book is a great read."
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The Changing World Order
"Goes into a lot of details about how money works (or doesn't)."
book list View source ↗"Two books you should read now."
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The Law
"3 books I recommended on Pomp's podcast. These books help you understand how our world works (or doesn’t work). This understanding is essential for success."
tweet View source ↗"This short (only 60+ pages) but timeless [book] is pretty advanced for its time, and it aligns with a lot of my personal philosophy."
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The Advantage
"The competitive advantage of successful companies lies more on how healthy and well a company’s organization behaves and operates."
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Alchemy
"Addresses some of the counterintuitive points in life and business in a very interesting way."
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Antifragile
"We definitely want Binance to be antifragile. This book may explain why we make some of the decisions we make."
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Blitzscaling
"Has been very helpful to Binance as we chart our growth as an organization."
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The Coaching Habit
"If you are leading a team or mentoring someone, you should read this book."
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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."
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Crossing the Chasm
"Has helped me hone my message with regard to talking about Binance to the world."
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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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The DevOps Handbook
"A must-read for tech teams."
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Exponential Organizations
"An excellent book on organizations, and I found this book more relevant the more we grow our team."
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Fallen Dragon
"Every once in a while, I enjoy science fiction novels like this one."
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Hug Your Haters
"A must-read for marketing and customer service teams."
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The Infinite Game
"Gives a perspective on long term vision. It will broaden your horizons and views."
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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."
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Made to Stick
"Informs a lot of our public outreach in terms of making our services more essential for our users."
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Platform Revolution
"A great book about platforms, how to build them, and why they are important and impactful."
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Range
"[About] how many great inventions happen at the intersection of disciplines."
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Sell with a Story
"Learn how powerful storytelling is if you want to be a better salesperson, marketer, and communicator."
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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."
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Team of Teams
"I believe every modern organization should be run under these principles."
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Team Topologies
"A must-read for team players, team leaders, and aspiring leaders."
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Work Rules!
"Talks about work-related insights derived from the author’s time at Google."
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Warren Buffett
"It’s clear no one knew how to value stocks a few decades ago, maybe even today."
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Currency Wars
"Two books you should read now."
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Give and Take
"Good read. Givers, fake givers, matchers and takers. Why givers win."
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".@LayahHeilpern did a great job explaining bitcoin in simple to understand terms in her book. Keep up the good work. 👏"
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Good to Great
"@cryptokingkitty Have it in my collection, and read it a few times. Good book."
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
"@UniHodler Yup, great book."
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