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web3 is going just great

Coinbase CEO tries to weave a compelling story about how their own team came up with a Super Bowl ad that "broke the rules on marketing", is quickly revealed to just be taking credit for the work of an outside ad agency February 21, 2022 web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-21

Coinbase CEO tries to weave a compelling story about how their own team came up with a Super Bowl ad that "broke the rules on marketing", is quickly revealed to just be taking credit for the work of an outside ad agency Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong embarked on a 12-tweet-long thread congratulating Coinbase employees for coming up with the bouncing QR code. He wrote, "I guess if there is a lesson here it is that constraints breed creativity, and that as founders you can empower your team to break the rules on marketing because you're not trying to impress your peers at AdWeek or wherever. No ad agency would have done this ad." Unfortunately for him, CEO of The Martin Agency Kristen Cavallo showed up with receipts: "It was actually inspired by presentations our agency showed your team on 8/18 (pages 19-24) and 10/7 (pages 11-18) with ad concepts for the Super Bowl with floating QR codes on a blank screen."

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web3 is going just great

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Two tweets. First by Brian Armstrong: "10/ I guess if there is a lesson here it is that constraints breed creativity, and that as founders you can empower your team to break the rules on marketing because you're not trying to impress your peers at AdWeek or wherever. No ad agency would have done this ad." Reply by Kristen Cavallo: "Except an ad agency did do that ad."

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web3 is going just great

shout out to the absolute legend

@Cavallokristen

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shoshana wodinsky (she/her) is looking for work!

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is there any proof that coinbase stole this idea? A random tweet is not "proof".

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so they STOLE IT from an agency pitch but didn’t hire the agency? then took credit for it? wait— is it an NFT?

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when u give a company an idea in an interview and they use it but don’t hire you 😞😞😞 fiat money wouldn’t do this to us

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Taking/stealing credit seems to be a feature of Web3, not a bug.

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(((John Forsyth)))

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they/them! (1954, dir. gordon douglas)

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Big fan of this guy trying to pretend it’s all a work

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