# CZ and Binance: The Man Who Built Crypto's Biggest Empire

An episode of [Great Business Stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1728626597), 1 Jul 2026, 32 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/f62e45f4/podcast/play/122195231/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-30%2F5d1feddf-5932-f9d7-5c67-5ea2d5b07254.mp3

This is a guy who grew up in a village in rural China with no running water and today is now worth $110 billion. I examine his relationship with Sam Bankman Fried- and his subsequent involvement in the multi billion dollar collapse of Bankman Fried’s company FTX. I also look at how he tried to keep Binance away from any type of regulation, and this ultimately led him to serve time in jail but then very controversially get a presidential pardon. It's a cracking story — enjoy.

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