The Bold Lesson To Be Learned From the Story of Coinbase’s First Employee Olaf Carlson-Wee.

Taking action is always the right thing to do.

A place in the Guinness World Records might have been a just reward for Olaf Carlson-Wee, Coinbase's first employee. Upon graduating from Vassar College with a degree in Sociology, Carlson-Wee decided to send a cold email to Coinbase, attaching his 90-page thesis.

Fortunately, that thesis was about “Bitcoin and the broader implications of open source fin…