91% of our employees were never hitting their usage caps, so instead of lowering caps and driving up alerts, we're moving to cheaper defaults.

Brian ArmstrongCEO · Executive, Coinbase

Social post: X post by unnamed account, X post by Brian Armstrong, CEO, June 27, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Coinbase: $7.2 billion revenue, FY2025

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Who is speaking

Brian Armstrong, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Runs Coinbase; posts about its internal AI use on his own X account.

How this was checked

Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).

The fxtwitter JSON for brian_armstrong's post contains the sentence exactly, in the 'Better Defaults (not Usage Caps)' paragraph. The only normalization was curly vs straight apostrophes. The post is by Brian Armstrong, speaking for Coinbase ('our employees').

How to cite this passage

Brian Armstrong (Coinbase), “X post by unnamed account”, X post by Brian Armstrong, CEO, 2026-06-27. https://api.fxtwitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2070670644577280109 Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/coinbase-91-employees-were-never-hitting-their-usage-2026

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