Armstrong: Digital natives will value online identities over physical locations
Brian Armstrong · Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon · Dec 21, 2018 · at 39:04
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, predicts a cultural shift in how future generations prioritize digital identities over traditional geographic or national identities.
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“And I think it'll flip at some point where it's like this mentality shift of, you know, am I, are you first is, you know, people have all different types of identities, right? Is my primary identity you know, the school I went to, like, you know, this military thing, or is it the country I grew up in? Or is it like, in a more global sense, like, my identity is, I'm a global citizen, and I have this online identity, and maybe I feel a stronger sense of identity with, like, this Facebook group, or, like, you know, Y Combinator, or some kind of online community of people, or, like, a Reddit, a subreddit, and I think that that mental shift, like, there'll be a whole generation of kids that grow up that are sort of, like, digital natives, and their online identities may actually be more important to them than, like, where they're Geographically located in any given moment.”
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