Fred Ehrsam
From CryptoWiki
Bio
- 'Close pals' with Brian Armstrong (18-10-2020). "After meeting with more than 50 possible partners (it’s a lot like dating), I met @FEhrsam through Reddit and we set out to build Coinbase." (15-4-2021).
Occupations
- Goldman Sachs, 'briefly' former trader
- Coinbase, founder, stepped back end January 2017. Now a board member and 'still serves as a director' according to Forbes (18-10-2020).
- Mina; mentioned as one of its backers (31-3-2021).
- Paradigm; co-founder
- 0x protocol; advisor, Used to play online games together with Will Warren and his wife.
Investments
- Was ranked among the crypto billionaires by Forbes with $1.9 billion (7-4-2021). With Coinbase’s stock price plumetting, Ehrsam’s personal wealth has dwindled from $2.1 billion to $800 million (5-2022 - 12-2022).
- Numeraire; investor/advisor. Backs also prediction data marketplace Erasure on Numerai; the first marketplace where "anybody can upload predictions, stake them with NMR and build a track record that everyone will trust". (6-10-2018)
- Has been supporting dYdX, also in their last A series round.
- According to Messari (15-9-2020) an investor in Handshake.
- Radicle; one of the backers named as an early supporter (17-2-2021).
- ZCash, investor