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Ben Horowitz and Brian Armstrong on Building and Overcoming the Hard Things

a16z Podcast

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The Pros and Cons of Being a Public Company

Coinbase is now a public company, which in some ways is the ultimate in transparency. In 2021, Coinbase raised $3 billion of debt with very favorable terms. I was worried that I would have to spend like 20, 30, 40% of my time speaking with public market investors. That turned out to not really be the case. The last thing I'll say is that dual class stock is something people should learn about.

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