{"id":30214,"date":"2020-10-16T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30214"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:08:16","slug":"another-coinbase-top-executive-leaves-the-bitcoin-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/another-coinbase-top-executive-leaves-the-bitcoin-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Coinbase top executive leaves the Bitcoin exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Global Marketing at Coinbase, John Russ, announced his resignation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In light of the decision <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coinbase?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@coinbase<\/a> employees were asked to make by October 7th, I have decided to leave Coinbase. In my time leading Global Marketing, I have been fortunate to work alongside many great people and teams, especially our Global Marketing team. I wish all well!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Russ (@JRussII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRussII\/status\/1316486105676611584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Russ clarified that he is leaving the post due to the company\u2019s apolitical mission. He joined at least 60 Coinbase employees who <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-loses-5-of-staff-over-apolitical-mission\">did not accept<\/a> the updated policy of the exchange\u2019s chief executive, Brian Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the exchange&#8217;s CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/brian-armstrong-urges-coinbase-employees-unhappy-with-mission-to-resign\">proposed<\/a> that employees who did not back the company&#8217;s decision to refrain from discussing political and social issues resign by October 7. They would receive four months&#8217; severance and six months of insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October Coinbase <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-loses-another-top-executive-reasons-not-disclosed\">left<\/a> the chief of regulatory and compliance oversight Jeff Horowitz. The reasons for the top executive&#8217;s departure were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <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>John Russ, head of Global Marketing at Coinbase, announced his resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30215,"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],"class_list":["post-30214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214","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=30214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30216,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30214\/revisions\/30216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}