Brian Armstrong is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange. Coinbase, which has played an important role in making cryptocurrencies accessible to the average person, is one of the largest crypto exchanges by trading volume and trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol COIN.
The lion’s share of Brian Armstrong’s net worth comes from his ownership stake in Coinbase, as he is the company’s top shareholder. He has also made a number of angel investments,
Prior to co-founding Coinbase in 2012, Armstrong founded UniversityTutor, a website that provided an online directory of tutors. The company was later acquired by Johnson Educational Technologies. Brian Armstrong is also the CEO of ResearchHub, a platform that aims to accelerate scientific progress by employing principles used in open-source software.
