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Brian& #39;s Coinbase statement strikes me as isolationist fantasy. Of course there is a balance between business building and juggling all the various concerns of the rest of the world. But if you have people you have politics.
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Basically, by taking your business, a group of people w/ real world concerns, and purposefully disengaging your organization from the non-business world... you are effectively GUARANTEEING you& #39;ll land on the wrong side of history for absolutely every issue.
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If Coinbase was around when it was unpopular for women to be working it wouldn& #39;t have advanced the cause. For people of color. For worker& #39;s rights. For parental leave. For child labor. Pick a point in history & apply Brian& #39;s logic to the culture of the time
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By engaging with the world, at least you have a shot of improving the world, and ending up on the right side of history at least some of the time. By disengaging, you& #39;re ensuring a cold sort of stasis
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And it& #39;s particularly gross that he points to the values of diversity in the workplace. Coinbase& #39;s new policy 100 years ago wouldn& #39;t have felt the need to declare that. So is it just Brian& #39;s sense of politics driven throughout the org via fiat?
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That& #39;s his "right" I suppose but essentially devalues every other employee& #39;s values and ideas. And hilariously, Paul Graham (who I might normally take time to understand) thinks THAT is the non-conformist(!) approach that attracts the "real" talent? GTFO
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Brian, I& #39;m sorry you have to be building a company during a highly politically charged time.
What a bummer for you.
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What a bummer for you.
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For anyone at Coinbase that loves that company, its mission, its product, but not this position, I& #39;m sorry your leader did the "hard thing" by just publicly opting out of these trying times.
