momo🔸 (@momobsc_) “The most powerful woman in crypto grew up without electricity. Yi He was born in” — TopicDigg

The most powerful woman in crypto grew up without electricity. Yi He was born in a village in Sichuan that had no electricity and no running water. Her father died when she was nine. At sixteen she was selling drinks for a living. Later she hosted a travel show on Chinese television. She started learning English in her thirties. In 2014, working in marketing at an exchange, she hired a little known engineer named Changpeng Zhao. Three years later, the two of them founded Binance. In December 2025 she was named co-CEO. In 2026 Fortune placed her on its Most Powerful Women in Business list the first crypto-native executive ever to make it. Asked about where she came from, her answer was short: Of course I come from a poor background. But I am successful. Why can't you do the same? There is no secret here. Just someone who never asked her circumstances for permission.