Kings of Crypto by Jeff John Roberts
I finished Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street by Jeff John Roberts. This short book gives a fast paced picture of the crazy Silicon Valley startup culture and how the ups and downs of coinbase in the last 8 years impacted the crypto industry and blockchain in general. Jeff starts from 2012 when Brian Armstrong was walking into YCombinator's Mountain View office to raise fund and ends up with his meeting in Manhattan with Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase. In between came many of the crypto figures that I am very familiar with - Brian Armstrong Fred Ehrsam Ben Reeves Vitalik Buterin Andreas Antonopoulos Charlie Lee Jed McCaleb Balaji Srinivasan As I have been following the crypto industry and rad a lot about blockchain, did trading since mid 2017, I found the second half of the book as a validation of what I knew and the first half of the book with full of new insights. This book is a fun read a