“I guess if there is a lesson here it is that if you’re going to take credit for someone else’s idea to try to make your team sound good, maybe you shouldn’t also use it as an opportunity to dunk on the people who actually came up with the idea.”
Brian Armstrong wrote 12 tweets about how no ad agency would ever have made the bouncing QR code ad. The CEO of The Martin Agency replied with the dates and page numbers of the decks where her agency pitched it to Coinbase. A crypto exchange taking credit for something it didn’t build is very on brand.