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Biography
Bobby Christopher Lee is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of BTCC, China's first cryptocurrency exchange. Lee sold BTCC in 2018 and now runs a startup called Ballet that creates bitcoin wallets. He serves on the board of directors of the Bitcoin Foundation.
Early life
Lee was born in the Ivory Coast, and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University in 1998.
Career
Lee was an engineer at Yahoo before becoming Walmart's vice president of technology in China.
Lee became interested in bitcoin through his brother Charlie Lee, the creator of litecoin.
Lee was one of the co-founders of BTCC. In early November 2013, BTCC became the largest bitcoin exchange in the world, with a market share of about 31.7 percent, surpassing Tokyo-based Mt. Gox.