How Brian Armstrong built Coinbase

A chat between Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong and a16z crypto general partner Sriram Krishnan. Their conversation, hosted for founders at the 2023 Crypto Startup School, covers the journey from coder to manager, the importance of building a community of power users for your product, frameworks for choosing big product bets, and more.

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