{"id":30055,"date":"2020-10-13T19:13:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T16:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30055"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:20:03","slug":"media-serena-williams-reportedly-declines-coinbase-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-serena-williams-reportedly-declines-coinbase-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Serena Williams reportedly declines Coinbase investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information about the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disappeared from the website of Serena Williams&#8217;s venture fund. Business Insider drew attention to possible changes in Serena Ventures&#8217; investment portfolio in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/serena-williams-coinbase-investor-2020-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In April 2019, Williams spoke about her fund and investments in Coinbase. According to the athlete, Serena Ventures selects projects that are distinguished by &quot;leadership, individual potential, creativity and prospects.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Web Archive service, in Serena Ventures&#8217; version of July 14, 2020, Coinbase&#8217;s logo appeared in the &quot;Our Investments&quot; category.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113087\" style=\"width: 1064px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113087\" class=\"wp-image-113087 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1407.png\" alt=\"Media: Serena Williams declined Coinbase investment\" width=\"1054\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1407.png 1054w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1407-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1407-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1407-768x334.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1054px) 100vw, 1054px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-113087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serena Ventures site version from July 14, 2020. Source: Web Archive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At present, the logo of the crypto exchange does not appear in the section.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113088\" style=\"width: 889px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113088\" class=\"wp-image-113088 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-319.png\" alt=\"Media: Serena Williams declined Coinbase investment\" width=\"879\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-319.png 879w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-319-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-319-768x440.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-113088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serena Ventures site version from October 13, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The publication suggests that removing information about the platform signals the fund&#8217;s decision not to invest in Coinbase. A possible reason could be the exchange&#8217;s new mission and the stance of its CEO, Brian Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, he barred employees from discussing political and social topics unless they related to the cryptocurrency industry. To dissenters, he <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/brian-armstrong-urges-coinbase-employees-unhappy-with-mission-to-resign\">offered<\/a> to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that 60 employees did not accept the &quot;apolitical mission&quot;. Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-loses-5-of-staff-over-apolitical-mission\">did not rule out<\/a> that more people could leave Coinbase.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the website of Serena Williams&#8217;s venture fund, information about the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase disappeared. Business Insider drew attention to possible changes in Serena Ventures&#8217; investment portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,52],"class_list":["post-30055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30057,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions\/30057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}