91 - Brian Armstrong and The Future of Coinbase
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Brian Armstrong is the Founder and CEO of Coinbase. As a pillar of innovation and adoption in crypto, Brian is playing a pivotal role in determining the kind of future we’ll see in the space.
The Crypto movement is a battle for hearts and minds, and Coinbase is fighting on the front lines.
Building bridges between the legacy world and the Metaverse is a daunting task, but Brian has been a headstrong leader with a powerful vision. Coinbase finds itself in a position to maximize a user’s choice for what they do with their assets.
With new features on the way like their NFT platform, Coinbase is steadily opening the doors for composability, decentralization, and ultimately… sovereignty.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
7:30 Brian Armstrong & His Start
14:11 Why Coinbase?
19:00 Money, Tech, and Values
25:48 The Drive and Vision
29:36 The Future of Coinbase
32:56 Retail, Institutions, and Developers
36:32 Relationship with DeFi
40:32 Coinbase Lend & CeDeFi
47:30 Public Goods & Decentralization
51:39 Eating All the Banks
58:09 Custody & Sovereignty
1:02:30 The Metaverse
1:10:02 NFTs and Mainstream
1:16:52 Withdraw to Layer 2
1:18:34 Regulation
1:26:40 Taking on the SEC
1:32:12 Maturing and Growing
1:36:27 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Brian on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong?s=20
Coinbase:
https://www.coinbase.com/
The Master Switch:
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:12.4 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front-run the opportunity. |
| 0:16.5 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more Bankless. |
| 0:22.5 | David, Brian Armstrong on the podcast, CEO, co-founder of Coinbase, what an episode, |
| 0:29.9 | what a conversation, what were seven of your thoughts coming out of that? |
| 0:33.9 | I really liked the way that we actually structured the podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | I started talking about Brian, the human, Brian with the person with the values and visions, |
| 0:42.4 | and then turned that right into how that turned into a company called Coinbase. |
| 0:46.3 | You might have heard of it. |
| 0:47.3 | And then, of course, a number of the things that have gone around in the recent news cycle, |
| 0:51.1 | Coinbase's fight with the regulators, their new NFT platform, their new NBA and WNBA |
| 0:56.3 | sponsorships. |
| 0:57.3 | A lot of things happening in the world of Coinbase, and also a lot of things happening around |
| 1:01.5 | the world of Coinbase, including banks feeling scared, Mark Zuckerberg turning Facebook into |
| 1:06.6 | meta, and then, of course, we finished, again, with the conversation about Brian Armstrong |
| 1:10.8 | towards the end as a crypto veteran of the 2010s, what he thinks the 2020s will look like, |
| 1:17.0 | and why he seems to be immune from this cycle of founders that create something, get wealthy, |
| 1:23.0 | and get lazy, and then get disrupted. |
| 1:25.6 | That's not Brian. |
| 1:26.8 | Coinbase has yet to be disrupted. |
| 1:28.8 | So what keeps him going? |
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