Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints
Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency company, has faced many internal complaints about discriminatory treatment. Tweets: @ericajoy , @briannawu , @dhh , @nathanielpopper , @flyosity , @nathanielpopper , @moorehn , @puiwingtam , @hshaban , @hshaban , and @balajis Tweets: Erica Joy / @ericajoy : 1. you complain 2. they tell you they can't substantiate your claims because there is no written evidence 3. they push you out you could set your watch to that timeline https://twitter.com/... Brianna Wu / @briannawu : This article on racism at @coinbase is beyond damning. https://twitter.com/... @dhh : If you're going to scoop an upcoming negative story, you probably should know exactly what it alleges. Otherwise you might just end up making a sizzling trailer for a story that's much worse than your denial pretended 😬 https://www.nytimes.com/... Nathaniel Popper / @nathanielpopper : NEW: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has long styled himself as a Silicon Valley thought leader on management and culture. The culture he built, however, led to a history of complaints about discrimination and racism from Black employees, buried until now. https://www.nytimes.com/... Mike Rundle / @flyosity : “One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun.” Hey @brian_armstrong, your company and its culture is trash. https://www.nytimes.com/... Nathaniel Popper / @nathanielpopper : These problems have stayed in the shadows because most of the Black employees who complained about their treatment were given generous severance packages if they agreed not to talk about their experiences at the company. But many of them spoke with us. https://www.nytimes.com/... Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn : A necessary story about anti-Black racism in tech. https://www.nytimes.com/... Pui-Wing Tam / @puiwingtam : Here's the @nytimes story that @coinbase would like to be excluded from. 23 current & former Coinbase employees told @nathanielpopper how Black employees were “bullied.” Coinbase said some episodes would “be difficult for employees to read.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : One way companies can claim that their people, their cultures, and their operations are not discriminatory is to...ignore the Black workers who say they face discrimination at work. Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : NYT reports Coinbase: “One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun...Another said a co-worker at a recruiting meeting broadly described Black employees as less capable.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @balajis : @paulg @dannolan Yes. But an even better model today is to have an editor-in-chief rather than a head of PR. Write your own code — and make your own media. Stripe Press, Twitter Moments, AirBnB Magazine are examples of what can be done with first party content developed by a tech company. https://twitter.com/... Expand More For Next Unexpand More For Next