Brian Armstrong
10 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 15, 2021 by Brian Armstrong · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Nov 15, 2021
Armstrong: Only 5% of Coinbase employees took severance after 'no politics' memo
“It turned out it was about five percent of the company. We offered this exit package to people, anybody who was not on the same page and wanted to make it all win-win, about five percent of the company decided to take the exit package”
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021 negative
Armstrong: Coinbase preferred shutting down over pivoting to enterprise banking software
“If we have to pivot this company to be an enterprise software company, I think we maybe just want to shut it down and return capital to investors. Cause like, I just didn't want to run that company. Like we really were in it for the mission. We were a mission …”
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021 negative
Armstrong: Unanimous consensus committees miss breakthrough innovations
“I think there's a real danger in consensus, especially when you're talking about real breakthrough innovation, because yes, Every breakthrough innovation looks like a bad idea, but it's actually a good idea, and so you, I think you really want to avoid, like, …”
Nov 15, 2021 neutral
Armstrong: Misjudged crypto adoption by expecting widespread everyday payments within four years
“If I could go back to my mindset at the beginning of Coinbase, I was like thinking, oh, you know, three or four years, There's going to be hundreds of millions of people using this as a payment method, and the whole network is going to scale, and I would have …”
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021 positive
Nov 15, 2021
Armstrong: Uncertainty of finding product-market fit is what demoralizes entrepreneurs
“When you're trying to get product market fit, you know, you're just continually tweaking things, and getting customer feedback, and fixing bugs, and you never know if you're one more fix from turning the corner, and then boom, organic growth just starts
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