Coinbase CPO Ends His Journey With The Firm

It’s “time to get off the ride,” said Surojit Chatterjee, after resigning from his post.

In the recent United States Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) report, on October 28, 2022, Coinbase Global Inc., the crypto exchange firm and Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer (CPO) of the firm, mutually agreed that Mr. Chatterjee would step-down as Chief Product Officer. This will be effective on November 30, 2022.

Moreover, the firm also showed gratitude for the contributions of its former CPO during his employment at Coinbase, including his leadership in building Coinbase’s product organization and launching the products that are aimed at increasing economic freedom in the world.

On the other hand, the product, engineering, and design teams of Coinbase are now being reorganized within a product group structure, in which the lead members of such groups will assume responsibility for Coinbase’s product offerings.

On November 03, 2022, Mr. Chatterjee posted on twitter that after spending three incredible years as CPO of Coinbase, he is now stepping down. He also thanked the entire team of Coinbase as he looks forward to continuing to serve the CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong and the executive team as an Advisor.

After nearly 3 incredible years as CPO @coinbase, I’m taking a breather & stepping down. Thanks to the entire CB team – I’m looking forward to continuing to serve @brian_armstrong and the exec team as an advisor. I’ve shared some reflections here: https://t.co/y5qM9VaJ36
— surchatt.eth (@surojit) November 2, 2022

Coinbase CPO’s Incredible Journey

Along with a LinkedIn post, he shared the following tweet. He started the post by adding a little bit about his initial days at Coinbase. After spending three incredible years, his incredible run at the firm began in February 2020.

Mr. Chatterjee recalled that when he joined the firm, they only served consumers and offered its users the opportunity to buy and sell a few (25) assets. But over the last three years, Coinbase expanded its product portfolio, product and engineering teams. It also increased assets by around 7X and Monthly Transacting Users (MTUs) by 8X.

Additionally, on May 19, 2022, Surojit Chatterjee, presented Coinbase vision for building for web3 at the Permissionless conference by Blockworks. He named web3 projects including the Dapp wallet, Dapp marketplace, wrapped ETH, direct withdrawals and send/receives to L2s/L1s, native DEX trading on Coinbase’s main app, along with improved Coinbase wallet.

Mr. Chatterjee also shared that “Coinbase shall always remain very close to my heart, and I will continue to be inspired by Coinbase’s mission to increase economic freedom in the world.”

The CEO Reaction

Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, further expressed his feeling as the firm’s CPO left the organization.

1/ I’m deeply grateful to Surojit for leading the product org for the past three years. He’s an exceptional leader and I’ve learned a lot from him. https://t.co/acrkwA6JuB
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) November 3, 2022

In a twitter thread, he expressed as “I’m deeply grateful to Surojit for leading the product org for the past three years.” He also mentioned that he was personally excited to dig in a lot more and help drive the product vision for Coinbase.

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