303: Jeff John Roberts Tells The Coinbase Origination Story

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jeff John Roberts writes about intellectual property, blockchain and cyber security for Fortune. He has a new book about Coinbase titled Kings of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and onto Wall Street. In this conversation, we discuss the Coinbase story, Satoshi Square, the various players that helped build the US' largest crypto exchange, and why Coinbase may tokenize their equity rather than go public one day. =============================== Blockset by BRD is your hosted blockchain infrastructure. Blockset enables enterprises and developers around the globe to deliver high-quality blockchain-based applications in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost. Using the services provided by Blockset, businesses can build professional custody solutions, accurate and near real-time portfolio management solutions, auditing platforms, commercial block explorers, and much more: blockset.com =============================== Crypto.com is the only all-in-one platform that allows you to BUY / SELL / STORE / EARN / LOAN / INVEST crypto all from one place. Join over 1 million users currently using the Crypto.com app. Download and earn $50 USD using my code ‘pomp2020’, or use the link http://platinum.crypto.com/r/pomp2020 when you sign up for one of their metal cards today. =============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp podcast.
0:06.0	Simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off.
0:10.0	Jeff John Roberts writes about intellectual property, blockchain, and cybersecurity for fortune.
0:17.0	He has a new book about Coinbase titled Kings of Crypto, One Startup's Quest to take cryptocurrency
0:22.4	out of Silicon Valley and onto Wall Street.
0:25.3	In this conversation, we discussed the Coinbase story, Satoshi Square, the various players
0:31.0	that helped build the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, and why Coinbase may tokenize their
0:35.6	equity rather than go public one day.
0:38.2	I really enjoyed this conversation with Jeff, and I hope you do as well.
0:42.9	Before we get into the episode, though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors.
0:46.3	The first is BlockS by BRD.
0:49.1	They're your hosted blockchain infrastructure company.
0:51.9	Think of them similar to Amazon's AWS, but for the crypto and blockchain space.
0:58.0	BlockS enables enterprises and developers around the globe to deliver high-quality blockchain-based
1:03.1	applications in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost.
1:06.9	You can use their services provided by BlockSet for businesses that can build professional
1:11.4	custody solutions, accurate near real-time portfolio management, auditing platforms, commercial
1:17.2	block explorers, and much, much more.
1:20.2	Again, BlockS by BRD provides all the infrastructure you need similar to how Amazon AWS
1:25.6	does this in the non-blockchain world. Go check them out
1:29.0	at blockset.com today. Again, blockset.com. Our next sponsor is crypto.com. They got a great
1:37.1	URL, but they also have an all-in-one platform that allows you to buy, sell, store, earn, loan,
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