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Coinbase aquires Earn.com and appoints Balaji Srinivasan as CTO

Balaji Srinivasan speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 at Pier 48 on September 20, 2017 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images )

By: Keerthi Mohan

Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase has acquired Earn.com, a portal that allows people to make money by answering emails or completing other tasks, and it has hired Earn’s co-founder and CEO, Balaji Srinivasan, as its first chief technology officer (CTO). In a blogpost about the acquisition, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, said that Srinivasan has become one of the most respected technologists in the crypto field and is considered “one of the technology industry’s few true originalists.” Before serving as the CEO at Earn.com, Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS…

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