Gary Wang is the co-founder of Alameda Research and FTX· He served as chief technology officer for both firms.
Wang graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degrees in mathematics and computer science.
Wang co-founded the crypto exchange FTX and helped grow it into a leading marketplace for buying and selling crypto derivatives. FTX enabled customers to trade digital currencies for other digital currencies or traditional money; it also had a cryptocurrency known as FTT.
Prior to co-founding Alameda Research (and later FTX) with Sam Bankman-Fried, Wang worked as a software engineer at Google, where he developed price aggregation systems for Google Flights.
The 29-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire topped Forbes’ 2022 list of the world’s billionaires under 30 with a net worth of $5.9 billion in April 2022.
Most of his fortune was tied up in a 16% stake in FTX and a share of its FTT tokens.
After users started withdrawing their investments from FTX at a rapid pace, Bankman-Fried filed for bankruptcy for FTX, FTX’s United States operations and Alameda Research.