Puri: Uniswap processes $10B weekly with fewer than 35 employees
Shaan Puri · 12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220 · Sep 17, 2021 · at 13:34
Host Sean Puri describes the capital and labor efficiency of decentralized exchange protocol Uniswap compared to Coinbase.
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“What if I told you that this company is doing ten billion a week in trading volume? And what if I told you it was doing that with less than 35 employees? What if I told you that it took Coinbase eight years and a thousand employees to get to a billion dollars in revenue? And I told you that Uniswap Is only two and a half years old, has less than 50 employees, and is on pace to do over a billion dollars in revenue this year. Would that be something you're interested in? Because that's Uniswap right now.”
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