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Max Levchin
(Entrepreneur (PayPal, Slide, HVF, Affirm, Glow), investor (Yelp, etc), coder, cyclist, coffee snob. My views are my own.)
Sajith Wickramasekara was just 24 when he made the cut for Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his biotech R&D startup Benchling. Today, Wickramasekara joins the ranks of unicorn founders as Benchling hits a $4 billion valuation. That valuation –…
When I joined the Coinbase board in 2017 as its first independent director, crypto in many ways was still the wild west. Back then the perception of crypto was that it was largely used by bad actors, and in fact my own introduction to the space…
Today, Coinbase has gone public. We are proud to say that Coinbase is a Y Combinator company and a member of the Summer 2012 batch. Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong applied to Y Combinator on March 29, 2012 and began the batch a few months later.
⏰ The Coinbase Show w/ CEO, Co-Founder and more [🔴REC] w/ Sriram Krishnan, Dan Romero, Aarthi Ramamurthy, Brian Armstrong, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Steven Sinofsky, Garry Tan 🍔, Katie Haun, Fred Ehrsam — Join us…
Outschool, a marketplace providing small-group, virtual after-school activities for children has raised a $75 million Series C led by Coatue and Tiger Global Management. TechCrunch first learned of the round from sources familiar with the…
