Coinbase founders meeting on Reddit is like Wordpress/Gitlab succeeding as a distributed company: it proves it can be done, and makes it easier to sell because you can point to a winner.
Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong will be worth ~$20 billion by end of day (he owns 20% of coinbase). Prior to starting Coinbase in 2012, he worked at Airbnb and Deloitte. The fact that someone created that much wealth in such a short time is amazing. I love the internet