She almost became crypto's next Yi He. At her peak she had a ten-figure fortune, and it was gone overnightđđ
This is the story of Constance Wang, former COO of FTX.
She started out at Huobi as an account manager in Singapore. She went to every event, got to know people in the industry and kept growing the business. Through that work, she met Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam saw what she could do and asked her to help build a brand-new exchange.
That exchange was FTX.
At one point, Sam offered to make her co-CEO. She said no.
International markets, big clients, new frontiers: she and her team built all of it piece by piece. Even in a bear market, FTX kept growing under her lead.
She kept her salary, her savings and her investments on FTX. To her, there was no safer place.
Her reason was simple: "Because I built it."
That's exactly what made what happened next so brutal. People she trusted were hiding a truth big enough to destroy the company. Everything she'd poured herself into collapsed in just a few days, and it took her fortune and the future she'd imagined with it.
If FTX hadn't fallen, where would she be now? Maybe right at the top of crypto, just like Yi He
This is the story of Constance Wang, former COO of FTX.
She started out at Huobi as an account manager in Singapore. She went to every event, got to know people in the industry and kept growing the business. Through that work, she met Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam saw what she could do and asked her to help build a brand-new exchange.
That exchange was FTX.
At one point, Sam offered to make her co-CEO. She said no.
International markets, big clients, new frontiers: she and her team built all of it piece by piece. Even in a bear market, FTX kept growing under her lead.
She kept her salary, her savings and her investments on FTX. To her, there was no safer place.
Her reason was simple: "Because I built it."
That's exactly what made what happened next so brutal. People she trusted were hiding a truth big enough to destroy the company. Everything she'd poured herself into collapsed in just a few days, and it took her fortune and the future she'd imagined with it.
If FTX hadn't fallen, where would she be now? Maybe right at the top of crypto, just like Yi He