# Fred Ehrsam Co-founder of [[Coinbase]] (with [[Brian Armstrong]]) and co-founder of the crypto venture firm Paradigm. A major financial backer of the crypto industry's political agenda, Ehrsam was named in March 2026 to the reconstituted [[President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology]] co-chaired by [[David Sacks]] — placing crypto-industry founders directly inside the federal government's senior science-and-technology advisory body. See: [[David Sacks News Log]] · [[Crypto-Political Machine]]