Armstrong was shocked at the thought. “I went rogue,” he said, and posted a mandate in the company’s main engineering Slack channel. “I said, ‘AI is important. We need you to all learn it and at least onboard. You don’t have to use it every day yet until we do some training, but at least onboard by the end of the week. And if not, I’m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everybody who hasn’t done it and I’d like to meet with you to understand why.’”

At the meeting, some people had reasonable explanations for not getting their AI assistant accounts set up during the week, like being on vacation, Armstrong said.

“I jumped on this call on Saturday and there were a couple people that had not done it. Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something, and some of them didn’t [have a good reason]. And they got fired.”

Armstrong admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people in the company who “didn’t like it.”

He gave them one week? So he has poor planning skills, he's impatient with terrible impulse control, he's unable to motivate people (probably because they know he's an intolerable ass) and his big idea is "do what everyone else is doing, even if you don't know why." Sounds like CEO is the only job he can do. What a fool.

I’m guessing it’s because he’s a prick. That’s it, isn’t it?

Fuck all cryptobros. With a saguaro.

I'm guessing he only wants yes-men

Reminder that Coinbase is the company securing the assets of the majority of government sanctioned/registered crypto ETFs. If you are invested or thinking about being invested in cryptocurrency, but have doubts about the ability of Coinbase to do things in a secure, competent way, consider self custody instead of trusting them.

Coinbase has always been the laughingstock. They're not a real exchange.

Fucking wish . com lex luther

The dude looks like he's unironically roleplaying his life as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.

Because he's the CEO of Coinbase, what else would you expect someone with that job title to do?

That's some A tier micro management

Let's all drop everything. There's something shiny and new hereabouts.

I'm gonna move my crypto out of CB if this schmeckle is running it

Why is it so often a bald guy.