Fred Ehrsam

“Actually the very first hire at Coinbase was this guy Olaf Carlson Wee, outside of Fred and I as the co-founders, and we were trying to hire this customer, someone to come in to run customer support, because of the backlog I mentioned, and I remember it came d…”

“And so when he came in and started to analyze all of the flow of funds on every trade, he was able to map that out. And due to like certain time risks and things, things, he actually was correct that he'd mapped that out. And it was just a set of conditions, w…”

“And I actually don't think Coinbase would have succeeded without Fred, like, if you look at the subsequent three, four, or five years, There was a lot of, like, near-death experiences, and he's just an absolute killer.”