Congrats Brian Armstrong on the Coinbase IPO!

“I don’t think crypto is here to solve every problem in the world, but it’s here to solve one very important meta-challenge, which is economic freedom” — Brian Armstrong in the WSJ

“He said it could be a trillion-dollar market” — Adam Draper, seed investor since 2012

I took the photo above of Brian with Tim Draper (full disclosure: DFJ Growth was also an early investor, back in 2014). Brian: “Bitcoin was my first true love. But it broke my heart.” He had great hopes for extensions of the platform for things like smart contracts, and it just didn’t happen. “Now my heart belongs to Ethereum.”