If there is a slight here, I suspect it's the belief that Coinbase was effectively a pump and dump on behalf of the founders and some investors - for which the

If there is a slight here, I suspect it's the belief that Coinbase was effectively a pump and dump on behalf of the founders and some investors - for which the employees were along for the ride. That Armstrong liquidated a large position and moved it into real estate, plus the lackluster stock performance compared to what coinbase was likely promising employees leads to this feeling. For a while, coinbase was competing with the top firms in the world on Compensation - the employees probably missed out by joining. But that's the breaks, I doubt many employees would have been happier if the founders and core investors in coinbase were taking a bath to.