# Brian Armstrong

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#222 Brian Armstrong - Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase

Brian Armstrong, born in San Jose, California, is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, which he launched in 2012 with Fred Ehrsam. A Y Combinator alumnus, Armstrong grew up in a middle-class family and earned a B.A. in Economics and Computer Science fr…

Musk vs. Twitter, Trouble in the Metaverse, and Bitcoin on Amazon Prime

Elon Musk has reversed course and is now looking to buy Twitter again, at his original price. He also drops hints about what he’s looking to do with his re-acquired domain, X.com, making it the all-in-one app to do everything for everyone. There’s also trouble in the Metaverse as Zuckerburg struggl…

Brian Armstrong – The Future of Crypto - [Invest Like the Best, EP.186]

My guest this week is Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. The topic of our conversation is the future of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance. Its been a while since I checked in on the world of crypto and while prices are still below the 2017 highs, there’s been a ton of addit…

How a Top 100 Dream Guest List Landed Alex Karp Interview: Sourcery Founder Molly O’Shea | Ep 100

Send us Fan Mail In just one year of full-time building Sourcery, Molly O’Shea has interviewed over 200+ founders, CEOs, execs & investors across public co's, startups, VC, growth equity, PE, hedge funds on her show, Sourcery - including Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir ($PLTR), Palmer Luckey, CEO of…

The Trend That Could Take Bitcoin & Crypto Higher Than Ever - John D'Agostino

John D'Agostino is Head of Strategy for Coinbase Institutional, where he works with the big institutions coming into crypto. Before that, as Head of Strategy at NYMEX, he led the launch of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, a story so wild it became Ben Mezrich's bestseller Rigged. What does Coinbase …

Figma Bets on Code, Google’s Gemini Agent and What Companies Pay For

This week Figma put real, running code on the design canvas with code layers, Google shipped Gemini 4 Argon and launched its Gemini agent for work, and new data from Ramp shows which AI tools companies are actually paying for. In this video I look at why Figma wants your prototypes to run on your r…

Coinbase’s CEO says the Future is “One Person Teams” + Claude Agents can "Dream"

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced plans to cut 14% of its workforce - and credited AI as one of the reasons why. His vision of "one person teams" where a single person handles engineering, design and product management is turning heads. We break down what he actually said, whether it makes sen…

The Sovereign Individual | Book Review

In 1997, William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson published The Sovereign Individual, a book that forecast the rise of the internet, cyberspace, digital currency and a digital economy. It also predicted that people would gain more ownership over their own lives and move away from dependence on the…

Burning the Furniture

Source: “Coinbase didn’t just lay off 14% of its staff due to AI. It replaced managers with ‘player-coaches’ and turned its org chart upside down” — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, May 5, 2026. https://apple.news/A1FNmSPRPQ-yHUiFfzbPnuQ ——— Brian Armstrong didn’t restructure Coinbase. He confessed…

The COO Playbook | Emilie Choi, Coinbase

Emilie Choi is the President and COO of Coinbase, where she’s spent nearly a decade building the operating system Brian Armstrong runs the company on. She took a lateral move to join in 2018, the market crashed a few months later, and when the COO seat opened the board told Brian to go hire a big …