Former Google executive Pankaj Gupta joins cryptocurrency exchange platform Coin base
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Former Google executive Pankaj Gupta joins cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase as its India Site Lead and VP Engineering. The firm is set to hire hundreds of employees across various roles in the next one-two years.
The Coinbase will be hiring hundreds of employees across various roles such as user experience, research and product management in the next one-two years.
Gupta, who was leading Google Pay Engineering in APAC and India earlier, said in a blogpost, "India has world-class tech expertise and some of the brightest minds in the industry. Coinbase plans to tap and develop this local talent."
The US-based Coinbase had a blockbuster debut in the US stock exchange NASDAQ recently with a valuation of $86 billion last week. On March 25, the company said that it would set up its base in Hyderabad and will hire talents even as uncertainty around the regulation for cryptocurrency continues.
This comes at a time when the Indian government is mulling a ban on cryptocurrency, which the industry said would be a setback. Nandan Nilekani, chairman, Infosys, said during a recent event that Indians should be allowed to have crypto as an asset class
