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The night before IVP s Tom Loverro submitted a $100 million term sheet, Coinbase s CEO called him. I remember feeling nauseous, Loverro told Insider. A major cryptocurrency had crashed.
Coinbase is expected to go public this week, and IVP s stake could be worth up to $3.33 billion.
On June 22, 2017, the night before he submitted an offer to buy $100 million worth of equity in a young crypto startup called Coinbase, the venture capitalist Tom Loverro received a troubling phone call from the startup s CEO, Brian Armstrong.
It was about 8 p.m., and Loverro, a general partner at the venture firm IVP, had just finished dinner with his family, he said. The digital currency Ethereum had experienced a flash crash that day, and the price fell from about $296 to a low of $0.10 in a matter of minutes.
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