Expand / Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. (charge: Steven Ferdman/Getty Pictures )
Sixty Coinbase workers have approved a buyout deal after CEO Brian Armstrong declared a controversial new policy controlling political activism within the business. Armstrong revealed that the amount within an Thursday email for workers.
Armstrong declared the new policy a week following a summer when several tech firms faced pressure in their workers to be outspoken about matters of social justice.
“While I feel these attempts are well-intentioned, they possess the capability to ruin a whole great deal of worth at most firms, either by being a diversion, and by producing internal branch,” Armstrong composed at a September 27 blog article. “We have seen what inner strife at companies such as Google and Facebook may perform to productivity. I think most workers do not wish to operate in such divisive environments”
