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Brian Armstrong is an American business executive, billionaire and investor born on January 25, 1983. He is the CEO of cryptocurrency platform Coinbase. After starting out as a developer for IBM, he began researching Bitcoin and cryptocurrency concepts. During that time, Brian began purchasing and storing cryptocurrency in a personal wallet as he continued to research and learn more about the digital asset. In 2012, he joined a Y Combinator startup accelerator which gave him $150,000 in funding to start Coinbase. After recruiting co-founder Fred Ehrsam, the new partners began working on the development of the cryptocurrency platform.