Portrait of Fred Ehrsam

Rank #1576

Fred Ehrsam

Net worth $2.7B

cryptocurrency exchange · United States

Born
May 10, 1988
Age
38
Source
cryptocurrency exchange
Residence
San Francisco, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Science, Duke Univeristy

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Fred Ehrsam founded cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase in 2012 with Brian Armstrong. It has since grown into the largest U.S. crypto brokerage.
  • Ehrsam left the company in 2017 but remains on the board and still owns about 4% of its stock; Coinbase went public in 2021.
  • In 2018, he cofounded Paradigm, a cryptocurrency investment firm with more than $8 billion in assets.
  • Ehrsam graduated from Duke and worked as a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs for two years before starting Coinbase.
  • Growing up, he played thousands of hours of World of Warcraft, where he first learned about the concept of in-game digital currencies.

Financial assets

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