Brian Armstrong is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase. Founded in 2012, Coinbase is building the crypto economy - a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto. Coinbase serves over 73 million verified users, 10,000 institutions, and 18,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries. In April 2021, Coinbase was listed publicly on NASDAQ as COIN. In April 2020, Brian committed Coinbase to Pledge 1%, dedicating 1% of Coinbase profits, equity, and employee time toward charitable activities that leverage the power of crypto to help people around the world. In June 2018, he founded GiveCrypto.org, a nonprofit with the mission to financially empower people by distributing cryptocurrency globally. Brian also personally signed the Giving Pledge, committing the majority of his wealth to charitable causes throughout his lifetime. Before founding Coinbase, Brian served as a software engineer at Airbnb where he focused on fraud prevention. Before Airbnb, Brian founded and was CEO of Universitytutor.com, an online tutoring directory and a subsidiary of Johnson Educational Technologies LLC. Brian also previously served as a consultant for the enterprise risk management division at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Brian has a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rice University.
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