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> I think CB is on a very slippery slope. There are plenty of opportunities out there. Why working at CB?

For now, but give it six months I would tell you that they'd take a job at Coinbase for the same reason anyone today works anywhere: for the pay cheque.

We've had an entire generation of tech workers that forget that there are market downturns and in these downturns you end up with thousands of laid off people competing for the same job - often a job that you would have considered "under" you 6 months ago. I'm talking someone with 5 years more experience than you willing to take your job, and they'll do it for less money to boot.

It's in times like that where people will accept a job at Coinbase, because Coinbase will be around. And they'll be around because back in the early stages of the downturn they took the painfully necessary step of reducing payrolls.




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