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Coinbase — Coinbase Seed Round Pitch Deck
The 11 slides Brian Armstrong presented at Y Combinator Demo Day in August 2012 to raise Coinbase's seed round. Published by Armstrong himself in 2017.
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- Stage
- Seed
- Raised
- $0
- Year
- 2012
- Slides
- 11
- Source
- Brian Armstrong (Coinbase co-founder)
01Coinbase: your hosted bitcoin walletCover
02Bitcoin: instant, international, no transaction feesMarket
03Bitcoin as a global payment networkMarket
04Bitcoin growth: $2 million a day in transaction volumeMarket
05Early adopters: who needs bitcoin firstCustomer
06Today's bitcoin tools are too difficult to useProblem
07Coinbase: a hosted wallet on web and mobileProduct
08Coinbase is to bitcoin what iTunes was to MP3Solution
09Signups growing 20% dailyTraction
10$65,000 transacted in the first five weeksTraction
11Coinbase: a new payment network built on bitcoinSolution
Deck context
About this deck
The 11 slides Brian Armstrong presented at Y Combinator Demo Day in August 2012 to raise Coinbase's seed round. Published by Armstrong himself in 2017. This seed presentation from 2012 contains 11 slides and records $0 in funding. Its sequence moves through cover, market, market, market, and later supporting sections. The outline below pairs every slide with its extracted text so researchers can study how the argument develops, not only how the pages look.
Key facts
| Company | Coinbase |
|---|---|
| Stage | Seed |
| Amount raised | $0 |
| Year | 2012 |
| Slide count | 11 |
| Source | Brian Armstrong (Coinbase co-founder) |
| Verification | Verified deck |
Presentation structure
Slide-by-slide outline
- 01
Coinbase: your hosted bitcoin walletCover
coinbase. Your hosted bitcoin wallet. Web and mobile product screenshots showing a bitcoin balance and transaction history.
- 02
Bitcoin: instant, international, no transaction feesMarket
Bitcoin: A New Digital Currency. Instant. International. No Transaction Fees.
- 03
Bitcoin as a global payment networkMarket
Bitcoin: A New Digital Currency. A globe visualisation showing bitcoin transactions flowing between countries around the world.
- 04
Bitcoin growth: $2 million a day in transaction volumeMarket
Bitcoin Growth. $2 million USD per day in transaction volume. Line chart of daily bitcoin transaction volume from March to August 2012, rising from roughly 10k to over 50k.
- 05
Early adopters: who needs bitcoin firstCustomer
Early Adopters. International payments. Virtual goods. Games. Developing world. Peer-to-peer. Remittance. Micro-transactions. E-commerce.
- 06
Today's bitcoin tools are too difficult to useProblem
Too Difficult To Use. Current Tools: the bitcoin-qt desktop client and a command line terminal full of cryptographic keys. Coinbase: a simple web and mobile interface.
- 07
Coinbase: a hosted wallet on web and mobileProduct
Coinbase: A Hosted Bitcoin Wallet. Web and mobile screenshots showing an account balance, Send Money and Request Money actions, and a dated transaction history.
- 08
Coinbase is to bitcoin what iTunes was to MP3Solution
Coinbase : Bitcoin. iTunes : MP3.
- 09
Signups growing 20% dailyTraction
Coinbase Signups. Daily Signups chart showing 20% Daily growth, rising from near zero to about 4,000 between Aug 2 and Aug 18, 2012.
- 10
$65,000 transacted in the first five weeksTraction
Coinbase Transactions. Transaction Volume (BTC) chart. $65,000 USD in the first 5 weeks, from Jun 23 to Aug 18, 2012.
- 11
Coinbase: a new payment network built on bitcoinSolution
Coinbase: A New Payment Network. Based on the digital currency bitcoin.
Research notes
Questions about this deck
How many slides are in the Coinbase deck?
The deck has 11 slides. The complete outline on this page lists each slide in presentation order with its available extracted text.
What funding stage is this deck from?
This is a Seed deck. It is useful for comparing how companies at the seed stage frame their market, evidence, and funding case.
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