Coinbase is on a tear: they just acquired Cipher Browser (undisclosed sum, but its apparently good enough to mint the founder), so that Pete Kim can lead Toshi. When he released it, there was a good tweet:
Why is @CipherBrowser better than @toshi and it’s built by 1 dude? @petejkim.
Can’t wait for y’all to try it. Sign up for the iOS beta https://t.co/Wb1dKFjSB4.
This wallet is SOOOO good. We really need better talent at these top companies. pic.twitter.com/5e6cV8PBXZ
— Steven D. McKie (@Steven_McKie) December 14, 2017
They also picked up Earn.com for like $100 million (formerly they were called 21.co). The Hacker News thread is worth reading. More good tweets:
The reviews of https://t.co/oP5RRD3lDa on Hacker News today are not great. They make it sound mostly like a mass marketing tool for ICOs. Is that the main use case? https://t.co/Mrkd1wjRHm pic.twitter.com/ngHWoa6JLZ
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) April 17, 2018
Balaji is eager to take credit for his company’s recent success and says the company’s initial failures happened before he took over. Am I the only reporter who remembers Balaji as being the chairman — and very much in charge — of those two earlier failures? https://t.co/ANFsHo2TqO
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) April 16, 2018
Read more at: Coinbase buys Earn.com and makes CEO Balaji Srinivasan its first CTO.
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