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1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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> The biggest lesson I took away from the whole ordeal is that if you believe something is the right path, it's worth speaking up about it, even if it's controversial. Unless you work at Coinbase, right?

Unless you're labor. Capital can speak up about whatever it wants (so long as it doesn't start sympathizing with labor, of course)

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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> The biggest lesson I took away from the whole ordeal is that if you believe something is the right path, it's worth speaking up about it, even if it's controversial. Unless you work at Coinbase, right?

Why do people think work is an appropriate place for political activism?

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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post #12

> The biggest lesson I took away from the whole ordeal is that if you believe something is the right path, it's worth speaking up about it, even if it's controversial. Unless you work at Coinbase, right?

Why do people think work is an appropriate place for political activism?

That's a great question for the Coinbase CEO!

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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If the mission was to expel all of your black employees...mission accomplished I guess

"One of the biggest concerns around our stance was that it would impact our diversity numbers. Since my post, we've grown our headcount about 110%, while our diversity numbers have remained the same, or even improved on some metrics."

What that means in terms of black employees precisely, idk. But isn't it kinda racist to assume black people are a monolith with universally shared opinions? I can assure you that's not the case.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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This man spends way too much time on Twitter and not enough time learning the rules and regulations of the industry the company he leads participates in.

The mission is off track. He should stop listing garbage and stick to Bitcoin.

Crap like that shiba inu token are absolute scams, like most EVM tokens. They do nothing, add nothing, and trading them on chain just enriches the miners, or off chain, the exchange. Say what you like about dogecoin, at least it’s a long standing L1 blockchain with developers and history/transactions.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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post #11

> The biggest lesson I took away from the whole ordeal is that if you believe something is the right path, it's worth speaking up about it, even if it's controversial. Unless you work at Coinbase, right?

Unless you're labor . Capital can speak up about whatever it wants (so long as it doesn't start sympathizing with labor, of course)

You're paid to do a job. Politics is for your personal time. We need to work on getting more personal time for people so people can focus on those passions instead of further blending work and personal life.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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I think the reality is that Coinbase is so obviously a rocketship that the CEO could say anything and they’d have no trouble with recruitment or retention. Existing employees have stock grants worth millions, and new employees are getting great offers. The people who will take these jobs are generally going to be bullish on crypto. If you expect crypto to become a bigger piece of the economy in the future, it would b…

It's a story as old as time: investors (and employees with equity) will put up with just about any yahoo and their dictates (and noxious politics) as long as the money keeps rolling in.

The pathetic handwringing here about "virtue signaling" and Coinbase's struggles is the height of farce.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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post #5

This man spends way too much time on Twitter and not enough time learning the rules and regulations of the industry the company he leads participates in.

The mission is off track. He should stop listing garbage and stick to Bitcoin. Crap like that shiba inu token are absolute scams, like most EVM tokens. They do nothing, add nothing, and trading them on chain just enriches the miners, or off chain, the exchange. Say what you like about dogecoin, at least it’s a long standing L1 blockchain with developers and history/transactions.

They're all basically the same. All the arguments you have against anything not-bitcoin apply to bitcoin except bitcoin is older and way more power intensive. Doge is a better currency for a lot of reasons. Also its funny. List one, may as well list 'em all.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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post #11

> The biggest lesson I took away from the whole ordeal is that if you believe something is the right path, it's worth speaking up about it, even if it's controversial. Unless you work at Coinbase, right?

Unless you're labor . Capital can speak up about whatever it wants (so long as it doesn't start sympathizing with labor, of course)

I'm going to take a wild guess and say if you work at Coinbase—voluntarily—you're extremely well paid. You're the farthest thing from a victim. Just because you can't raise your fist and scream at your coworkers doesn't mean you're oppressed.
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