1/ Big announcement: we've been working with director Greg Kohs on a documentary about cryptocurrency and Coinbase over the last three years, and it will be coming out this Friday on Amazon Prime/iTunes/YouTube etc.
See the trailer here:
See the trailer here:
2/ We gave Greg and his team unprecedented access inside the company, showing the crazy ups and downs of building a tech startup all the way to us becoming a public company. He shows it all - the good, bad, and ugly.
3/ I agreed to do this documentary because I wanted to demystify what it takes to build a tech startup and encourage more people to start companies. I also wanted to demystify crypto.
4/ The world tends to either vilify founders or put them on a pedestal. Neither is true - they're just regular people trying to make something that people want. And everyone working in crypto believes it can create a more fair, free, and global financial system.
5/ As the saying goes, starting a company is like chewing glass and staring into the abyss. It takes incredible determination and a bit of luck. But if you succeed, you can change the world, and generate enormous value for millions of people.
6/ My belief is that technology is the best lever we have to solve the world's problems and improve the human condition, and I want to encourage more people to start tech companies. So I decided to pull back the curtain and show people what it's really like.
7/ I got in touch with Greg after seeing another film he created called AlphaGo, about DeepMind's program that defeated the Go champion, Lee Sedol. It was a powerful story, and it's what convinced me to trust him to tell our story.
8/ I hope you all go and see the film - and that policy makers see it as well. I believe it will help advance the cause of cryptocurrency, showing the motivations of the many hard working people driving this industry forward.
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