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How people got jobs at Coinbase
What 53 people did before they joined Coinbase: where they worked, what they studied, which role they came in through, and how long it took.
53
people in our data got there
44%
had a graduate degree first (of those listing one)
14
typical years since first job
- The most common step right before: from other companies (64%).
- The most common way in was Business & operations (25% joined in that kind of role).
- Of those who list their education, 44% had a graduate degree before arriving and 3% a PhD.
- The typical person arrived about 14 years after their first job.
- The most common earlier employer: Uber (11% had worked there).
How Coinbase compares
- 44% had a graduate degree, well below the 67% across other fintech companies, the 3rd-highest of the 3 in our data.
Among people who list their education; places with at least 10 such people.
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| People listing education | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Revolut | 29 | 72% |
| Stripe | 32 | 62% |
| Coinbase (this page) | 32 | 44% |
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| Median years | ||
|---|---|---|
| Stripe | 16 yrs | |
| Coinbase (this page) | 14 yrs | |
| Revolut | 12 yrs |
Which role they joined in
Kinds of role with fewer than 5 people are combined into "All other roles".
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| All other roles | 40 | 75% |
| Business & operations | 13 | 25% |
What they did right before
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From other companies | 34 | 64% |
| From Big Tech | 11 | 21% |
| From banks & Fortune 500 | 6 | 11% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
Where they worked before
A person can count under more than one employer.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Uber | 6 | 11% |
| 5 | 9% |
Education
Among the 32 of 53 people who list their education.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 18 | 56% |
| Master's | 9 | 28% |
| MBA | 4 | 12% |
| PhD | 1 | 3% |
How much experience they had
Among the 53 of 53 people with an earlier job listed.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 | 2% |
| 3-5 years | 2 | 4% |
| 5-8 years | 7 | 13% |
| 8-12 years | 11 | 21% |
| 12+ years | 32 | 60% |
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How these numbers are made. From 3k+ public career histories collected for careerladder.fyi (dated jobs, degrees and publications). The collection was built around particular employers, so people who reached well-known tech, AI and finance employers are over-represented: read shares as "among people in this dataset", not as hiring odds. Names are shown only when at least 5 people are behind them; smaller groups are combined into "Other". No individual profile is shown. Updated November 2026.