Coinbase

“In our YC batch, the referral bonus for going on Coinbase at the time was one Bitcoin.”

“If you're trying to, you know, make any type of major transaction peer to peer after hours and want to do so in a trustless way, stable coins are a fantastic way to do that.”

“They do not get enough credit for reinventing themselves. And running it back. Like a massive way. And it's honestly, if companies like Coinbase were not so dominant. From a narrative standpoint, they would get even more credit.”

“One big problem with liquid assets is they command a lot of attention, right? When you have your Robin Hood or your Coinbase or your whatever kind of going up and down on a day to day basis, there's this idea that you should sort of fixate on it and like try t…”

“I can actually see that happening where somebody's first time like really using crypto other than to speculate is like making a big purchase like a car.”

“Strong like infrastructure Platforms like Bridge, and especially the amount of investment that I imagine Stripe will put behind Bridge going forward, like merchant adoption will go up. Coinbase, you know, recently, you know, last week ran that ad, you know, sh…”

“I don't think they'll be issuing Wells notices at random to, like, Coinbase and Uniswap, because that's just dumb, but, like, they will be actually going after, like, legit scams.”

“USDC, I will tell you, I actually voted no on USDC to like, which was a terrible, now it's like almost a billion dollars of revenue or something for us.”

“We put out a twenty million dollar bounty for any information leading to their arrest. And conviction.”

“So our site actually crashed because we got about, like, 20, it was like 20 or thirty million visits in, in 20 seconds, like, and we knew there was gonna be a big surge, and so we had, like, I think the first page loaded and it was heavily cached, but then lik…”

“We onboarded all of our engineers to co-pilot and cursor and everything like that. So we got a hundred percent of them onboarded.”

“If you invited your friend and they onboarded They got 10 dollars of bitcoin, and you got 10 dollars of bitcoin. And at the time, that was like about one bitcoin.”

“Our customer support, I think like maybe 60% of inquiries are being answered by AI now, which is really good.”

“And the space is partitioned in an interesting way, and I think many other things will partition this way into like a US and a global, right? Like the USDC coin or the USDC asset is like US regulated, and then USDT is like intentionally non-US regulated, right…”

“So we actually set up this thing called we call it, like, Next Bets, and twice a year, anybody in the company can come pitch it's, like, a group of people, we call it, like, internal venture capital, and they're basically the people who run different product g…”

“So I actually think, like, most traditional securities are going to get tokenized on chain in the next five years.”

“They sent us this demand once, once we were, you know, they realized they'd been found out, and customers were kind of getting educated about this they sent us this demand for twenty million dollars, or we're gonna release all this information.”

“We, we've been working a little bit with, like, the SEC task force on this and trying to find the right path to do it.”

“USDC, I will tell you, I actually voted no on USDC to like, which was a terrible, now it's like almost a billion dollars of revenue or something for us.”

“So we had like maybe 5000 like tips or inquiries like come into the email that we put out there. Most of it was junk, and we kind of wheeled it down. There's about like 70 or so credible leads, I would say.”

“We launched Coinbase NFT, and it was pretty much a flop. Like, we launched Coinbase in Japan. We invested all this money and time, like, Didn't work for a bunch of reasons. I can tell you if you want and we shut that down”

“We're working on a couple of checkout type solutions with other players that we'll announce soon where the AI agent can actually get through the checkout flow in many of these e-commerce sites and pay with USDC on base.”

“Coinbase and Kobe announced that Coinbase is acquiring Echo. Yes. Echo is an angel list like platform for crypto. So they help groups of people invest in different projects. Yep. They paid three hundred and seventy five million. And so you can think of this as…”

“It's actually a big part of why Sequoia passed on Coinbase in the time.”

“So Coinbase established an independent advisory board on quantum computing and blockchain.”

“Looking back and seeing, seeing even, even after the original conviction, how many companies he was able to get in, he got into Coinbase at 400.”