Coinbase, every mention
22 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to Coinbase
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every year 2022 anyone Ted Seides 41Olaf Carlson-Wee 20Eric Peters 16Chris Dixon 10Stephen McKeon 8Avichal Garg 6Seth Ginns 4Marcos Veremis 4Ben Forman 4Ari Paul 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Coinbase comes up
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 27:43 Avichal Garg What you see is on the far left are folks like Coinbase or Binance or FTX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:49 Avichal Garg And so you're willing to go to Coinbase. 4 times in the scene
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 16:52 Regan Bozman From a trading perspective, before CoinList had their exchange, a common route would be you would invest, you would get your tokens in a third party wallet, and then you would like take them to another venue like Coinbase to trade.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 32:36 Chris Dixon For example, USDC is a stablecoin that's co-sponsored by Coinbase and Circle.
- ▶ 49:44 Chris Dixon So Coinbase, as an example, I was on the board and we invested in but they did 15 rounds of financing before they went public and we invested in every single one of them.
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 4:00 Ted Seides He was the first hire at Coinbase and led risk management before founding Polychain with initial investments 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 Olaf Carlson-Wee I was the 30th user of Coinbase. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:30 Olaf Carlson-Wee Once I joined Coinbase, I got a really intense, just hardcore, rapid lesson in scaling hypergrowth company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:48 Olaf Carlson-Wee So one of the things about the Coinbase product back then was bank transfers in the United States between a US bank to a US bank using the ACH system are comically slow. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:09 Olaf Carlson-Wee It's not as much this operational heaviness that came with, say, a Coinbase.
- ▶ 54:26 Olaf Carlson-Wee Definitely Brian Armstrong of Coinbase. 3 times in the scene
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 13:27 Ben Forman Coinbase was a series B company.
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 48:43 Stephen McKeon So not a Coinbase account or an FDX account or a Binance account.
- ▶ 53:26 Stephen McKeon If you think about like, why did most people open their Coinbase account or open their FTX account or open their Binance account? 2 times in the scene
Marcos Veremis – Allocator's Perspective on Blockchain (EP.254, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.01)
- ▶ 18:53 Marcos Veremis Former early Coinbase employees, Olaf is one such case, but there were others that were emerging in 2018.
- ▶ 39:44 Marcos Veremis The way I can go to Coinbase, I can go to Uniswap and exchange tokens or USDC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:35 Marcos Veremis And then you had Coinbase, and now you have all these institutional custodians and, and exchanges.
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 25:37 Steve Drobny And the good businesses have been the exchanges, Coinbase, FTX, Binance, et cetera, that facilitate this trading.
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 53:42 Tom Lenehan So we don't have any dedicated crypto funds, but we have a couple, not all, but a couple of venture managers who were early investors in Coinbase.
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 37:21 Annie Lamont Pax is effectively makes everybody Coinbase. 2 times in the scene
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 49:16 David Rosenthal Well, it turns out they invested in Coinbase and made eleven billion dollars on it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:19 David Rosenthal When they listed on Coinbase about a month ago, they shot up to about an 11 and a half billion dollar market cap.