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Brian Armstrong

28 statements across 14 episodes · 12 bullish · 9 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 3, 2020 by David Friedberg · said 117 times in 41 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (55), David Sacks (25), Chamath Palihapitiya (16), David Friedberg (12), Joe Lonsdale (2), Bill Gurley (2), Vivek Ramaswamy (1), Patrick Collison (1)

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2022 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
2021 36 mentions in 8 episodes 5 per episode
2020 31 mentions in 3 episodes 10 per episode

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Everything said about Brian Armstrong, oldest first

Oct 3, 2020 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Coinbase policy will successfully filter for culturally aligned talent
“I think he'll do exactly what he's hoping to do, which is to get people to leave and to attract other people that better fit with that cultural model.”
David Friedberg Oct 3, 2020 ▶ 54:19 E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more
Oct 3, 2020 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Brian Armstrong's Coinbase memo showed naivety and stupidity
“I think that he showed a lot of naivety and frankly, like you know, a little bit of stupidity, really. It was really poorly written and that's why it's been so misunderstood and misconstrued.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 3, 2020 ▶ 41:24 E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more
Nov 11, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Only 5% of Coinbase employees took Armstrong's exit offer
“Only five percent of Coinbase's employees took Armstrong up on that offer to leave.”
David Sacks Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 49:51 E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
Nov 11, 2020 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Brian Armstrong's post on political activism was pathetically poorly written
“The whole Brian Armstrong thing, again, just to say, one of the most pathetically poorly written, you know, pieces of English prose I've ever fucking seen, you know.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 48:05 E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
Dec 4, 2020 positive
Opinion
Chamath: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was right to create an apolitical workplace
“I'll say this about Brian Armstrong. I have a lot of respect for him for making a stand. I think every CEO has that, right? And I'm glad that at the end of the day, the employees at Coinbase were given A humane way of making a decision to be on the same page w…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 4, 2020 ▶ 1:28:15 E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
May 31, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Chamath: Brian Armstrong's Coinbase memo is among the most important CEO writings
“I think there have been a couple of CEO memos in the last two months that I think honestly should be in the Hall of Fame in the Smithsonian. One is the Toby Lutke memo that the internal email he wrote, and the second one is this one that Brian wrote, because I…”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 31, 2021 ▶ 33:32 E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
Oct 2, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Only 5% of Coinbase employees took severance over apolitical policy
“Well, only five percent took the policy.”
David Sacks Oct 2, 2021 ▶ 7:55 E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
Dec 23, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Only 5% of Coinbase staff took severance over political ban
“They gave a generous severance package to anyone who didn't go along with it. It was only five percent took it.”
David Sacks Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 51:04 E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
Feb 12, 2022 positive
Opinion
Chamath: Coinbase banning workplace political activism was a profound cultural milestone
“The substance of what Brian Armstrong did was incredibly profound, one of the most important things that actually happened in the last few years in Silicon Valley culture.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 12, 2022 ▶ 29:36 E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
Apr 23, 2022 negative
Opinion
Armstrong: Accredited investor laws are inherently exclusionary
“The danger is if we ever get into a place where we say, well, only wealthy people can now invest because somehow there's an accredited investor test. That's inherently exclusionary. I don't like the accredited investor laws.”
Brian Armstrong Apr 23, 2022 ▶ 39:35 E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
Apr 23, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Armstrong: Coinbase eliminated open-mic Q&A sessions at company town halls
“So we got rid of the open mics.”
Brian Armstrong Apr 23, 2022 ▶ 11:30 E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
Apr 23, 2022 positive
Insight
Armstrong: Starting or joining a company is best way to affect change
“I think the best way to affect change right now today is for young people is start a company or join a company.”
Brian Armstrong Apr 23, 2022 ▶ 23:40 E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
Apr 23, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Armstrong: 5% of Coinbase employees took exit packages during culture transition
“About five percent of the company opted into the exit package package.”
Brian Armstrong Apr 23, 2022 ▶ 5:40 E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
Apr 23, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: CEOs will soon numerically prove mission-focused policies create value
“In the next few quarters, I think CEOs will actually be better equipped to numerically point to why taking Brian's path is the value creating path for shareholders and for stakeholders.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 23, 2022 ▶ 19:36 E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
Nov 12, 2022 bearish
Disclosure
Armstrong told Binance CEO CZ that acquiring FTX was a bad idea
“And I spoke to CZ about why he was considering buying the asset. I thought it was a bad idea.”
Brian Armstrong Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 23:52 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Nov 12, 2022
Opinion
Armstrong: Fundraising tokens are securities, but decentralized utility tokens are not
“If people want to issue a token that's raising money for a company, let's regulate it as a security. If they want to issue a token that's truly on a decentralized protocol, or has some other purpose like voting in a DAO or rewards or something like that, then …”
Brian Armstrong Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 43:11 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Nov 12, 2022
Assertion Supported
Armstrong: FTX did about $1B in revenue in 2021
“At that time, FTX did about one billion in revenue.”
Brian Armstrong Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 44:34 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
Dec 3, 2022 negative
Opinion
Sacks: NYT covered SBF more favorably than Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
“Even after this fraud, the New York Times wrote more of a puff piece on him than the hit piece they wrote on Brian Armstrong last year, when Brian Armstrong wouldn't toe the line on allowing politics at work.”
David Sacks Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 20:41 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Jun 10, 2023 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2026
Calacanis: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will move the company offshore
“So we don't have Brian Armstrong move his company to the Middle East or, ah, you know, an island in the Caribbean, which is what he's going to do, I predict.”
Jason Calacanis Jun 10, 2023 ▶ 14:35 E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Armstrong: Coinbase allocates 5% of resources to legal issues, 95% to products
“Five percent of our resources is gonna go deal with that and make sure that's not an issue. 95% of us are here to build products.”
Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 20:52 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
Sep 21, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Sub-cent, sub-second crypto transactions will trigger explosion of new use cases
“I, the metric I've been tracking internally, and I kind of push our team on, is we need every transaction to get under one cent in 1:02. If that, that feels like a threshold where we'd see an explosion of new use cases.”
Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 15:17 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Armstrong: U.S. administrative agencies are de facto creating laws
“What's happened, sort of, is that we've created these agencies, and because they can just send subpoenas to everybody, or publish these guidance letters, you know, this is kind of the administrative state, if you will they are de facto creating laws.”
Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 7:18 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Brian Armstrong: Sam Bankman-Fried should go to jail
“You know, Sam Bankman-Fried should go to jail.”
Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 7:04 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Armstrong: Only about 3 million people have used ENS so far
“There's only been about three million or so people have used ENS so far”
Brian Armstrong Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 13:01 All-In Summit: In conversation with Brian Armstrong
Jul 10, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Haidt: Brian Armstrong and Coinbase were first to enforce workplace mission focus
“Major, major kudos to Coinbase. They were the first one, Armstrong, he was the first one to really put that out there.”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:11:44 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview
Jan 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Armstrong estimates 20% of California billionaires left, creating $10B tax deficit
“My estimates would probably be 20% of the billionaires have already left in California, that it's already created a negative ten billion tax hole, even if, even with the amount that they hope to raise from the people who stay.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 24:33 Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: On-chain capital formation will be massive for private companies
“But anyway, I think on-chain capital formation is going to be massive for private companies.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 19:04 Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Companies will eventually go public entirely on-chain
“I think eventually, like, you'll actually just be able to go public totally on-chain too.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 19:09 Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
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