Coinbase, the CEO and Culture

Coinbase’s debut on the stock market caused a massive stir this week not least for the amazing story of its founding and its rocketship trajectory over the past 10 years. CEO Brian Armstrong tells the story in this twitter thread.

Lots of things to think about for us; startup culture, work hard as ‘bad’, Armstrong’s first hiring shout out for a co-founder and the declaration last year that Coinbase needed to be a politics free zone in order to deliver against its core mission. All the links above are brainfood, so click on them all.