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“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 35:04 Stein Overtoom It needs to really work, and the onboarding needs to be as simple as onboarding on Coinbase, um, or Stripe. 2 times in the scene
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 34:31 Balaji Srinivasan To give an analogy, this is not a perfect analogy, but like with Coinbase, we thought like listing would eventually go away and not be a big deal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:52 Balaji Srinivasan And so this round, we just led this with, uh, you guys, Asimzy Crypto, me, Winklevosses, um, Paradigm, uh, Coinbase, uh, Hasib Qureshi of Dragonfly, as you know, large fund, um, and, you know, a bunch of other, uh, uh, great people. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 15:40 Anish Acharya You know, it feels like you've been early to a bunch of movements, you know, products like, um, Coinbase, of course, and MakerBot. 2 times in the scene
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 41:16 Martin Casado I mean, there's Stripe, Databricks, Coinbase, OpenAI.
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 1:09 Burkay Gur The origin story is I, I used to work at Coinbase and they had a lot of infra issues with respect to machine learning and fraud was a big problem there.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 47:33 Balaji Srinivasan Sometimes you're gonna have, once you get to a certain scale, it's, it's good to have, like, sub-personalities, like, you know, for example, actually, Jesse Pollock's doing a great job at base for, for Coinbase, right? 2 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:38:59 Erik Torenberg People don't, you know, want to hear from the Coinbase handle.
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 1:22 Chris Dixon And that is now achievable if you download, like, the Coinbase wallet, for example, you can do that.
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 4:55 Steph Smith And we're seeing founders from Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase.
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 19:14 David George Advertisement for Coinbase.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:37:16 Ben Horowitz Uh, I, I remember when, when we made the coin base investment, I guess Bitcoin, which was the, the, the one cryptocurrency at the time was, I don't know, it was some number of hundreds of dollars and everybody
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 50:15 Ben Horowitz You know, interesting, like, oh, you know, I was thinking about like a company like, um, Coinbase where, right, they have incredibly valuable assets in the terms of money.
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
- ▶ 50:14 Steph Smith Plus, both founders from companies like Anduril and Coinbase, and funders like Mark Cuban, all building toward American dynamism.
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
- ▶ 46:41 unnamed speaker Plus, both founders from companies like Anduril and Coinbase, and funders like Mark Cuban, all building toward American dynamism.
Regulating Crypto in the Name of National Competitiveness
- ▶ 0:09 Ben Horowitz So I've got Emily, who is, ah, the very distinguished, ah, Chief Operating Officer of Coinbase.
- ▶ 2:57 Emily Choi Um, with the SEC, you know, they issued a Wells notice to Coinbase about a year ago.
- ▶ 3:39 Ben Horowitz Coinbase's kind of vision for what that could mean for the United States. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:20 Ben Horowitz Coinbase, uh, you guys started out, and when we invested, I believe you were, you were basically a Bitcoin exchange. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:42 Emily Choi Um, and then just generally Coinbase, we're meeting with politicians, we're meeting with regulators, we're meeting with,
- ▶ 13:27 Ben Horowitz So, we've, there's been a tremendous amount of news about the, uh, Bitcoin ETF, and, um, you mentioned that, uh, most of them are at Coinbase, and so what does it mean for Coinbase? 4 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 14:39 Steph Smith I mean, you sent me an article where recently Coinbase was fined a hundred million dollars for background check failures. 5 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 0:18 Steph Smith That is Balaji Srinivasan, who you might recognize as the former CTO of Coinbase, the former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. 2 times in the scene
NBA Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain
- ▶ 2:42 Dieter Shirley Um, the number of people who were excited by CryptoKitties, but couldn't get involved, um, because they didn't want to install MetaMask or they didn't understand what the, the 12, uh, keywords for their seed phrase were, or, um, they…
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 0:25 Chris Dixon Um, you were, uh, employee one at Coinbase.
- ▶ 16:42 Chris Dixon And from a user experience point of view, you know, if I send you, and it's the same with Ethereum, say it's proof of work, you know, and you go, you, if you download Coinbase wallet,
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 0:04 Sonal Chokshi Today's episode is based on a conversation that I had with AXNC crypto general partner, Chris Dixon and Brian Armstrong, CEO and co-founder of Coinbase at our annual innovation summit.
- ▶ 4:20 Brian Armstrong So Coinbase recently became a member of a consortium of companies in the crypto space that have a stablecoin project.
- ▶ 6:43 Sonal Chokshi Coase's paper, Ronald Coase's paper, and it may be time to rethink the future of the corporation, but I want to take a step back and think about a company that exists today as a classic corporation, like Coinbase. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:30 Sonal Chokshi Dixon, from your vantage point, um, as an investor, you're on the board of Coinbase, but you also meet with a ton of companies as well as 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 Brian Armstrong So we're in 33 countries today, and we need to be in about a hundred countries, and get the long tail of payment methods set up, and all over the world where people can just easily get fiat into crypto. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:55 Brian Armstrong We have this thought at Coinbase sometimes because we are enabling an open financial system or decentralized, but, you know, we are a centralized company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:40 Brian Armstrong I should say, by the way, also, we have, like, Coinbase Wallet is a totally user-controlled wallet, so you literally, you can be in custody of it, and it's not Coinbase at all.
- ▶ 29:02 Sonal Chokshi I mean, Brian, where'd you get the idea for Coinbase? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 43:03 Fred Wilson Yeah, they, like, them, like, tell a kid to download, like, an Ethereum wallet that has NFT capability and, and move their games out of Fortnite into their Coinbase wallet or, like, that, that, that, that's not gonna get in the way.
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
- ▶ 0:45 Sonal Chokshi And then we have Katie Hahn, also a former lawyer who teaches crypto at Stanford Business School and is on the boards of Coinbase and HackerOne.
- ▶ 30:52 Robin Weisman I think we're beginning to see in a lot of areas, and early on Coinbase was a leader in this, really priding themselves on the fact that they do comply with the laws, like they have a selling point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:16 Katie Haun To combat things like waste, fraud, and abuse, and many other things, and kind of came full circle when I joined the board of Coinbase last year, a year ago.
a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker I'm Hannah, and today's episode continues our series on all things crypto with Chris Dixon in conversation with Nick Tomaino, founder of early-stage crypto fund One Confirmation and formerly BD at Coinbase.
- ▶ 9:14 Nick Tomaino So very simply, in a centralized world, which exists now in, in digital assets, you're trusting a third party, uh, like Coinbase that allows you to, to trade, right?
- ▶ 24:28 Chris Dixon You know, I've been involved as an investor in the space, like, we invested in Coinbase in
- ▶ 29:04 Nick Tomaino Like, I was one of the early users of Coinbase. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 0:50 Olaf Carlson-Wee I joined Coinbase as the first employee and worked there for three and a half years.
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 0:53 Sonal Chokshi And is a co-founder of Coinbase, which has now become the largest cryptocurrency company in the world.
- ▶ 20:41 Fred Ehrsam One of the main graphs we would look at at Coinbase is GitHub repos that are referencing Bitcoin.
a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress
- ▶ 0:29 Matthew Colford For Coinbase.
- ▶ 2:30 Matthew Colford So, well, it's interesting, Mike, so this gets to a little bit what you guys are working on, because at Coinbase, you guys are simultaneously trying to make the case to the government, but then perhaps, but then also to the public at large.
- ▶ 11:00 Matthew Colford So, Mike, in addition to being the chief legal and risk officer at Coinbase, is also the mayor of Atherton, California, which is a pretty tech-savvy town, generally, lots of tech employees, tech executives.
- ▶ 13:17 Mike Lempress Certainly in Coinbase, we, we believe there has to be, the space has to be regulated.
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 2:39 Chris Dixon The difference now is that you can invest, for example, directly in a company like Coinbase, which we here did, and actually Olaf used to work at Coinbase, or you can invest directly in a protocol. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:56 Olaf Carlson-Wee So they have the same kind of economic model that you might see at a startup like Coinbase, where as an employee, you have equity and you have salary.
- ▶ 22:10 Chris Dixon So usually what you have to do is you go to Coinbase and convert your dollars, your fiat into something like Bitcoin, and then you can go to these other exchanges and trade from Bitcoin into Maker or whatever.
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 0:03 Chris Dixon Today, we're going to talk about Ethereum, and we have the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, and we also have Fred Ursim, who's the co-founder of Coinbase.
- ▶ 12:41 Fred Ehrsam Let's say that's when Coinbase was founded.
- ▶ 49:16 Fred Ehrsam It almost feels like Ben Horowitz told this story to Coinbase, uh, one time where he talked about how in the early days of Netscape, they had somebody asked them to come build an, an online virtual shopping mall.
a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
- ▶ 26:29 Patrick Byrne There really are people paying attention, and I called one of your companies, Coinbase, who was super responsive. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 1:05 Michael Copeland Mims is joined by Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong in this segment of the pod for a wide-ranging discussion about the current state and future possibility of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin blockchain.
- ▶ 8:40 Brian Armstrong One of them is that we've had 7000 developers sign up on Coinbase to create apps, and we have one of the more popular developer platforms out there.
- ▶ 19:10 Brian Armstrong Well, I mean, certainly our approach has been to try to make it easy to use for the average person. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
- ▶ 3:13 Michael Casey Really, they weren't paying much attention at all until we get to, really, 2015, and we've started to see, you know, the, the big announcement in January of, ah, the New York Stock Exchange participating along with, ah, of course, uh,… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 25:24 Marc Andreessen We funded a company called Coinbase that makes it 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 14:17 Chris Dixon So for example, the company I'm involved with, Coinbase, is going out and doing deals with merchants. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:25 Chris Dixon I think that, I think that's another case where, where a service like Coinbase can, you know, if it ends up being there's five large services, then internally they can, internally Coinbase can settle instantly, and if they have a deal with… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Ed Felten It's one of the things that Coinbase, for example, does.
- ▶ 24:32 Chris Dixon It's, it's, well, in the case of Bitcoin, it's very, well, first of all, they did a partnership with our company, Coinbase, so that was good, but, um, selfishly.
a16z Podcast | The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
- ▶ 1:00 Balaji Srinivasan Coinbase has disclosed some numbers.
- ▶ 3:19 Chris Dixon I mean, Coinbase is an awesome mobile wallet.
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 0:27 Chris Dixon Alright, so we're gonna have a, uh, hopefully uh, a kind of a fun, casual talk about, about, uh, crypto and Coinbase, and, uh, so maybe, um, maybe if you don't mind, can we go back to how you started, started Coinbase?
- ▶ 4:03 Brian Armstrong That would eventually become Coinbase on nights and weekends, and, um, I applied to Y Combinator.
- ▶ 7:15 Chris Dixon So then, so you started the company, you know, I think, you know, we invested when, in, uh, in, uh, in kind of one of the, I don't know if it wasn't really the first kind of, uh, I don't know, you know, upswing of Bitcoin, but it was one… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:02 Brian Armstrong Yeah, so I remember for a long time, you know, when Coinbase started, and for a long time after that, it was Bitcoin only, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:12 Brian Armstrong Well, when you guys invested, I guess it was, I mean, how did you decide to get, like, make a big bet on this? 3 times in the scene
Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- ▶ 34:57 Katie Haun One of the things that Coinbase that we always say is responsible innovation, and Coinbase is a great example because, um, when they were just starting out that company in San Francisco in 2012, they were told by their lawyers, big law… 2 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 32:15 unnamed speaker How do you reconcile that with kind of what I view as like, there are a few companies in the space that seem very powerful and centralized where everyone does their transactions through them, like Coinbase. 6 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code
- ▶ 1:25 Tina Bhatnagar And so some of the challenges that we have at Coinbase are really around the institutional and scaling up institutions.
- ▶ 7:01 unnamed speaker So, uh, Coinbase and Earn are both traditionally venture-funded companies in the way that we're, you know, familiar with seeing tech companies kind of grow up in the valley.
- ▶ 11:14 Lily Liu Um, that's what we've been trying to do at Earn now within Coinbase, um, to build ways that people can actually use cryptocurrency on a daily basis and integrate it into, um, integrate it into something which is inherently useful outside…
- ▶ 19:05 unnamed speaker How are you guys balancing, like, the capitalistic with also, like, the ethical and human side in that, like, you have all this attention, so I think about Coinbase, you have all this attention, you have a lot of people, like, you're gonna… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:19 Tina Bhatnagar Um, it's slightly different at Coinbase, right?