| Gender: Male | Age: 41 | Marital Status: Married | Nationality: American | Education: Rice University |

Date Of Birth: January 25, 1983 Place Of Birth: San Jose, California Profession: Business Man

Brian Armstrong's Parents: Names Unknown | Brian Armstrong's Wife: Raline Rahmat Shah - Married 2016(Reportedly) Children: Unknown

About Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong is the CEO and Co-founder of Coinbase , the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume originated and located in the United States. 

Brian Armstrong is a business-driven personality and it is one of the major factors behind his success and that of Coinbase. Although, he has been controversial with his opinions regarding workplace policies and conducts in the Coinbase Company, making people including most of his employees tag him as the "asshole boss".

Brian Armstrong is an American business executive, billionaire, investor, software engineer, and developer popularly known as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Coinbase.

Brian Armstrong attended Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas. After his educational journey there in 2005 he earned two bachelor's degrees, one in economics and one in computer science, and a year later subsequently earned a master's degree in computer science.

While still at Rice University, Brian Armstrong started a tutoring company that will help people in school match with other people capable of teaching or tutoring them, basically matching tutors to students.

The Tutor to Students matchmaking idea couldn't successfully grow into his dream company due to some recurring payments issues, amongst others. And after some years he sold it off for $2 Million.

In 2011, one year after learning about the cryptocurrency  market through the famous Bitcoin white paper written and published by Satoshi Nakamoto, and also after working as a developer for IBM and consultant at Deloitte, Brian Armstrong started working for Airbnb as a software engineer.

While working at Airbnb, he would use his spare time which was mostly the weekends and night time trying to develop a prototype of the idea;

A decentralized protocol that would provide security and backup which would work on mobile and the web, an idea he said he got from reading the Bitcoin  Whitepaper.

The idea of Coinbase started as a platform that will aid in the purchase and storing of crypto assets. The idea was met with a lot of criticism from his friends and other tech personalities as many even tagged it a "scam"

Amidst all the doubts and critics, though discouraged, he didn't back down from his idea, and his first big break came in 2012 when he was granted a $150,000 investment from Y Combinator.

Y Combinator  is an American technology startup accelerator responsible for the initial launch of more than 4000 companies including the company Brian Armstrong was working for; Airbnb.

Brian Armstrong left Airbnb  after the grant in 2012 and started building Coinbase fully. Armstrong expressed his need for a Co-founder, who according to his words would be someone that will share his ideas and vision, someone that will complement his weakness and improve his strengths.

To this cause, he made a blog post on Hacker News expressing this need and almost two months later he met Fred Ehrsam in a Bitcoin Forum on Reddit. Together they founded Coinbase and grew it to the 14.97 billion company it is now as of February 2023.

In 2017 Fred Ehrsam left the company and Brian Armstrong expressed that he wasn't happy about Fred Ehrsam leaving as Fred was a natural leader and was pivotal in handling most of the company's fundraising.

Brian Armstrong had to create a whole executive team to fill the void that Fred Ehrsam left in the Coinbase Company. Fred is also a billionaire and still owns 6% of the company's shares.

 Brian Armstrong Net Worth

Brian Armstrong is estimated to be worth about $11.1 Billion, according to Forbes 

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PROJECTS BRIAN ARMSTRONG IS INVOLVED IN:

COINBASE   BASE  NEWLIMIT  RESEARCH HUB  GIVECRYPTO.ORG  UNIVERSITY TUTOR