BREAKDOWN: The Definitive Guide to Coinbase Going Public
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
From the company’s history to business model to controversy, it’s everything you need to know.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
On the day of Coinbase’s historic direct listing on NASDAQ, NLW answers your most important questions about the company and its place in the industry.
- How did Coinbase become successful?
- What is the crypto public's perception of Coinbase?
- What is Coinbase's business model and how has that model been shifting?
- What is Coinbase's role in the recent institutional shift in bitcoin?
- Does Coinbase have any controversy in its past?
- Why did Coinbase choose a direct listing?
- What are people expecting, price wise?
- Why did BTC and ETH hit all-time highs in advance of the listing?
- How might Coinbase impact the crypto markets?
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| 0:49.4 | People who have been in this industry for a long time have seen so many years of incremental nudging and |
| 0:55.6 | bumping and pushing into mainstream traditional finance. And this Coinbase listing shows that |
| 1:01.1 | the barbarians aren't just at the gate. We're in the city. Welcome back to the breakdown with me, |
| 1:08.8 | NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big |
| 1:13.2 | picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by nexus.io and produced |
| 1:20.3 | and distributed by CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, April 14th, and today |
| 1:27.3 | we are talking the definitive |
| 1:28.8 | guide to Coinbase going public. So I have obviously spent a lot of time in the last couple |
| 1:34.2 | weeks on Coinbase. I explained on Monday why I think this is the first big test of this Bitcoin |
| 1:39.6 | bull market. There are a bunch of bigger picture, longer-term shows that I want to get to very soon, |
| 1:45.9 | for example, why the Biden administration is getting nervous about the Chinese digital yuan. |
| 1:51.4 | However, this is a seminal day in the history of this industry. So what I wanted to do is just |
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