Coinbase's Jesse Pollak Hands Base App to Cobie, Says Social Bet Was 'Definitively Wrong'
Jesse Pollak, the Coinbase executive who created Base, handed the consumer Base app back to Coinbase and named crypto investor Jordan Fish, known as Cobie, to lead it, while admitting that his two-year bet on onchain soc...
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