HIGHLIGHTS: Brian Armstrong - CEO of Coinbase

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast, which we do every Friday. For the long version, tune in on Wednesdays. Hi everybody and welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nikola Tanjen, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. And today I'm joined by Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, which is America's largest crypto exchange and increasingly one of the powerful forces shaping global finance.

So Brian, warm welcome. Thank you for having me. Now, 13 years ago, nobody trusted crypto, and today nobody can ignore it. And so what happened really? Well, you know, I first read about Bitcoin in December of 2010, and it was describing how there could be a a decentralized network to move value around the world, kind of like the internet was for moving information, but this was for moving value.

And, you know, it was initially didn't get much attention. Only people that were computer science PhDs or libertarians or anarchists were excited by it in these small forums on the internet. And it slowly grew over time. And of course, Bitcoin was the first asset that got created, kind of like this digital gold standard, but quickly the technology evolved to be blockchain as a broader concept.

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