Ex-Coinbase founders are the modern Xerox PARC I swear to god

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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hopefully who ever leads the charge of the company that becomes the apple of crypto is able to generate the same cultural impact, but isn't personally a jackwagon like Jobs was

Who will become the next Steve Jobs is the question…

Can you unpack more on this theme @cassie?

Do you mean like(?): 
Lick → 60's (ARPA/DARPA) → then finishing off in the 70's what was started in the 60's within a funded corporate lab, when the funding winds changed?

The pedigree of the Coinbase crew is extreme!

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → /phil →  phil.cockfield.net, db.team →  
ƒ(🌳) →  🧫 /sys  ←  @cell <T>

Especially the 70's era where the experiments were gelling together into real (albeit expensive) products (e.g. the Alto)
- desktop metaphor
- GUI
- mouse
- wysiwyg typesetting
- wysiwyg circuit designer
- rasterized graphics

You should join the Mathcastles discord. Xerox PARC is 70% of what we end up talking about

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