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Fred Ehrsam
Fred Ehrsam is Co-founder of Coinbase. He was previously a trader at Goldman Sachs.[1][2]
Career
From 2010 to 2012, Fred was a trader at Goldman Sachs. In 2012, he became the Co-founder of Coinbase. From 2017 and until now, he has been serving on the board of directors of the company. In 2018, Fred became the Co-founder of Paradigm.[3][4]
- Fred Ehrsam founded cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase in 2012 with Brian Armstrong. It has since grown into the largest U.S. crypto brokerage.
- Ehrsam left the company in 2017 but remains on the board and still owns about 6% of its stock; Coinbase went public in 2021.
- In 2018, he cofounded Paradigm, a cryptocurrency investment firm with more than $1 billion in assets.
- Ehrsam graduated from Duke and worked as a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs for two years before starting Coinbase.
- Growing up, he played thousands of hours of World of Warcraft, where he first learned about the concept of in-game digital currencies.
Education
Fred holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.
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