Fred Ehrsam #61

Co-Founder at Paradigm

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Fred Ehrsam & Co-Founder at Paradigm
Place of residence San Francisco, U.S.
Category Founders, Investing
Alma mater Duke University
Known for Founding Coinbase and Paradigm Capital
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“I continue to believe we'll learn more about governance and economic systems from blockchains than from the 'real world' in the coming years.“

Biography:

In 2013, Fred Ehrsam was included in Time’s “30 Under 30” feature and for good reason. The former Goldman Sachs trader left Wall Street to co-found Coinbase alongside Brian Armstrong, and in 2018 he became the co-founder of crypto investment firm, Paradigm.

Fred Ehrsam's 2019:

In 2019, Paradigm invested in a range of protocol and infrastructure projects in the blockchain space, including tBTC Network, a protocol for tokenizing BTC on Ethereum; Tendermint Inc., the core development team behind interoperable blockchain project Cosmos; and Uniswap, the popular Ethereum token swap protocol.

What Cointelegraph expects for 2020:

For 2020, we anticipate Paradigm will continue leading and participating in funding rounds for a range of protocol and infrastructure projects in the blockchain space.