fred ehrsam

Fred Ehrsam is the former Goldman Sachs trader, who switched his attention to digital currencies and the blockchain over a decade ago and co-founded Coinbase, the largest crypto brokerage in the United States. Ehrsam started his career as a foreign exchange trader at investment bank Goldman Sachs in New York, the United States.

 

He learned about Bitcoin from a Georgetown University professor's paper and began trading in his free time. In 2012, along with Brain Armstrong, Ehrsam started Coinbase in an apartment in San Francisco. Therefore, it created a way to trade bitcoins and other digital currencies. In 2014, at the age of 25, he has named to Forbes' 30 under 30 lists. In January 2017, Ehrsam declared that he was leaving the company but would be a board member. In 2018, Ehrsam co-founded Paradigm with Matt Huang.  He was named on Forbes' 2021 list of richest Americans.