The richest American is also the richest person in the world, according to the latest edition of Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List. You probably know his name. But who is the richest Canadian in the world?

Time’s up. It’s Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-Canadian coder who in 2017 founded the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. He served as the CEO until 2023, when he resigned and pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in the United States. He spent four months in prison — “he passed the time by working out, writing a book and talking crypto with fellow inmates,” Bloomberg reported last year.