Founders

Welcome to @barmstrong, co-founder and CEO of Coinbase! 

He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

switching things up with a longevity and healthspan question :). 

what were the defining moments or experiences that compelled you to co-found NewLimit? and what about NewLimit's early beginnings* remind you, if at all, of early Coinbase? 

*knowing you're a board member and not actively involved in the day-to-day

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

After the Coinbase IPO (direct listing) I had some liquidity and time to think on the next decade. I 100% wanted to keep building Coinbase, as I think we're just getting started on progress toward economic freedom (I want to see crypto being used daily by 1B+ people).

But I also started thinking about underinvested areas where I could help do something unique. I hosted a series of dinners with the smartest people I could find in biotech, and epigenetic reprogramming kept coming...

Around that time I found out I was not crazy as two others epigenetic reprogramming companies came on the scene funded by Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman. I suspect it will be an exciting space. The next 10-20 years we could see a lot of progress in biotech, with humans living longer, and...

.ultimately accelerating evolution and changing what it means to be human.

My hope is that I can help many ambitious companies get off the ground in my lifetime that accelerate progress for humanity. This is part of why it's important to build resources, so you can allocate capital to ambitious and difficult projects.

...up as a topic. I started feeling about epigenetic reprogramming like I did about Bitcoin when I first encountered it: high potential, underinvested in. My friend Blake Byers and I connected with the (now) co-founders of NewLimit, Jacob and Greg, and the company was born...