Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Creates Documentary Journey of Building a Start-up

- Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong (central) for a documentary. (photo: twitter @brian_armstrong)

JAKARTA - Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong announced in a series of tweets on October 4 that a crypto-centric documentary that captures his journey of building tech start-ups from the ground up will be available this Friday, October 7 on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Youtube, and other streaming platforms.

The documentary, entitled “Coin: A Founder's Story”, aims to reveal the secrets and show the public what it really is like to build a technology company from the ground up and encourage others who want to do the same.

According to Armstrong, documentary director Greg Kohs and his team had "unprecedented access" to Armstrong's company, capturing the crazy ups and downs over the span of the past three years. The announcement said the documentary would capture the “good, bad, and bad” of how to build a tech start-up from the ground up, to becoming a public company.

“I agreed to make this documentary because I wanted to reveal what it takes to build a tech startup and encourage more people to start companies. I also want to uncover crypto,” Armstrong was quoted as saying by Cointelegraph.

The CEO also said he hopes to show that tech founders are just ordinary people trying to create products that people want, adding that “everyone who works in crypto believes it can create a more fair, free, and global financial system.”

The CEO encouraged everyone to watch the film, including policymakers, as he believed it would help advance the cause of cryptocurrency, as well as demonstrate the motivation of the many hardworking individuals who are driving the industry forward.

On September 26, Cointelegraph reported that blockchain company Veritaseum is suing Coinbase for US$320 million in a case of alleged patent infringement.