Brian Armstrong
6 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 30 times in 9 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sam Parr (19), Balaji Srinivasan (4), Shaan Puri (3), Dan Held (2), Suleman "Suli" Ali (1), Kevin Rose (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 25 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
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- Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- Who Really Created Bitcoin & Other Crypto Startup Ideas | My First Million #196
- How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Brian Armstrong, oldest first
Apr 19, 2021 neutral
Parr: Brian Armstrong owns 20% of Coinbase, worth $20B at listing
“Brian Armstrong is the CEO. He's 38 years old. He owns, I think, 20% of the company which means at a hundred billion, his net worth is twenty billion dollars, which puts him, I think, like in the top 50 richest people in the world at 38.”
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Andreessen, Horowitz, Ravikant, Armstrong, and Ehrsam are daily intellectual sparring partners
“Mark and I have kept up a high bandwidth conversation for almost a decade now. Mark and Ben for sure. Neville Rovi-Kant you know, who's a very good friend of mine. And Armstrong, Fred Urson. These are really smart guys who like basically folks who I get a boun…”
Nov 3, 2022 positive
Rose, Jack Dorsey, and Brian Armstrong are funding dog longevity trials
“Myself and Jack Dorsey and Brian from Coinbase and a few others all have been putting money into funding studies at the University of Washington to really prove this out in dogs and canines, and then eventually move it into human trials.”
Jan 24, 2023 bearish
Ali: Passed on $25K Coinbase Series A worth $200M at IPO
“Biggest miss was Coinbase. My at TinyCo, we had this guy who worked for me named Adam Merber. He was roommates with Fred, the Coinbase co-founder. And so Brian Armstrong and Fred were fundraising for their Series A. They got a term sheet from Andreessen Horowi…”
Jun 28, 2024 positive
Puri: YC's Biggest Wins Came From Founders Scratching Their Own Itches
“The biggest Successes out of YC have typically been that, right? The Airbnb guys renting out their own apartment to make hay, or Brian Armstrong doing Coinbase because he lived in Argentina and dealt with the currency issues and was interested in Bitcoin. Thes…”
Nov 26, 2025 neutral
Brian Armstrong manipulated Polymarket odds during a Coinbase earnings call
“His team passed him a note and he goes, Oh, before we hang up here, I just would like to say web three crypto blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum. Thank you very much. And he just basically, he's like you know, just for all the prediction markets out there, you know…”