Fred Ehrsam
Fred Ehrsam, born Frederick Ernest Ehrsam III, is an American entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded the digital currency exchange company Coinbase.
In 2006, Ehrsam graduated from Concord-Carlisle High School in Concord, Massachusetts. In 2010, Ehrsam graduated with distinction from Duke University, earning a B.S. in computer science with a minor in economics. At Duke, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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After graduating from Duke, Ehrsam initially worked at Goldman Sachs in New York on the foreign exchange trading desk. He also worked in New York at BlackRock as a portfolio analyst.
Ehrsam left Goldman Sachs in 2012 to found Coinbase, a digital cryptocurrency exchange platform, with Brian Armstrong. The company went through the Y Combinator startup incubator. From 2012 to 2017, Ehrsam served as president of the company, over which time the service reached 13 million users and a valuation of $1.6 billion USD. In late 2017, Ehrsam transitioned away from day-to-day operations at Coinbase to focus on building blockchain-based apps.
In 2018, Ehrsam and Matt Huang of Sequoia Capital formed a crypto fund. Sequoia subsequently accounted that it would invest in the new fund.
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