# Gary Wang

> Gary Wang is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and former CTO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, known for his work at Google and studies at MIT.

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- Created: 2022-11-16T16:36:39.192Z
- Last updated: 2023-08-02T21:58:18.304Z
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**Gary Wang** is an entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is known as the co-founder and former chief technology officer (CTO) at [FTX](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ftx), a [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) derivatives exchange. He was a software engineer at Google prior to co-founding [FTX](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ftx) with [Sam Bankman Fried](https://iq.wiki/wiki/sam-bankman-fried).[\[1\]](#cite-id-7v8ggy91ovl)[\[2\]](#cite-id-ngjxuox1c6g)  
  
Prior to the collapse of [FTX](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ftx) in November 2022, Gary Wang was considered one of the richest and youngest self-made billionaires in the world.[\[3\]](#cite-id-s6g2s7bwrub)  
  
# Education  
  
In 2011, Gary Wang attended MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) where he studied mathematics and computer science, he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in math and computer science, in 2015.[\[6\]](#cite-id-6omn3ycawey)  
  
During his undergraduate studies, he took part in a variety of technology projects, including coding his team's robot for MIT's Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory competition, and worked as an intern at Facebook.[\[5\]](#cite-id-af0zeh5t0qq)  
  
# Career  
  
After he graduated from MIT in 2015, Wang worked for 2 years at Google as a software engineer. In 2017, Wang became bored working at Google and was persuaded to leave Google by his college friend [Sam Bankman-Fried](https://iq.wiki/wiki/sam-bankman-fried). They both worked at [Alameda Research](https://iq.wiki/wiki/alameda-research), a trading firm.[\[7\]](#cite-id-zvgfilv78od)[\[8\]](#cite-id-t6hdntmfexc)  
  
Together with Bankman-Fried, Wang founded [FTX](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ftx), a [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) exchange, and later relocated the company's headquarters from San Francisco to Hong Kong and then to the Bahamas, which has more favorable cryptocurrency regulations. He later cofounded FTX U.S, a sub-organization of the FTX company, which had a license to operate in the United States of America. Shortly after [FTX](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ftx) was established, the company became successful and was worth 18 billion US dollars in 2021 and was worth 40 billion US dollars in 2022 before it collapsed in November 2022.[\[9\]](#cite-id-zr1d0w8slm)