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Student Debt Repayment
In June 2019, Chegg announced a the roll out of an employee perk focused on student loan repayment. Under the announced program, Chegg employees who have been with the firm at least two years would be eligible to receive up to $5,000 in company stock to help pay down student loans.

June 2012- December 2013: Founding & Initial Funding Rounds
Coinbase was founded in June 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam.[6][7] Blockchain.info co-founder Ben Reeves was part of the original founding team but later parted ways with Armstrong due to a difference in how the Coinbase wallet should operate.[8] The remaining founding team enrolled in the Summer 2012 Y Combinator startup incubator program. In October 2012, the company launched the services to buy and sell bitcoin through bank transfers.[9] In May 2013, the company received a US$5 million Series A investment led by Fred Wilson from the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures.[10] In December 2013, the company received a US$25 million investment, from the venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures (USV), and Ribbit Capital.[11]

2014- 2016: Expanding the Exchange
In 2014, the company grew to one million users, acquired the blockchain explorer service Blockr and the web bookmarking company Kippt, secured insurance covering the value of bitcoin stored on their servers, and launched the vault system for secure bitcoin storage.[12][13][14] Throughout 2014, the company also formed partnerships with Overstock, Dell, Expedia, Dish Network, and Time Inc. allowing those firms to accept bitcoin payments.[15][16][17][18][19] The company also added bitcoin payment processing capabilities to the traditional payment companies Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal.[20]

In January 2015, the company received a US$75 million investment, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the New York Stock Exchange, USAA, and several banks.[21] Later in January, the company launched a U.S.-based bitcoin exchange for professional traders called Coinbase Exchange.[22] Coinbase began to offer services in Canada in 2015, but in July 2016, Coinbase announced it would halt services in August after the closure of their Canadian online payments service provider Vogogo.[23]

In May 2016, the company rebranded the Coinbase Exchange, changing the name to Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX)[24] and offering Ether, the value token of Ethereum, for trade to professionals,[25] and in July 2016, they added retail support for Ether.[26]

2017- Present: Acquisitions, Renewed Scrutiny,
In January and then March 2017, Coinbase obtained the BitLicense and licensed to trade in Ethereum and Litecoin from the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS).[27][28] In November 2017, Coinbase was ordered by the US Internal Revenue Service to report any users who had at least $20,000 in transactions in a year.[29] On February 23, 2018, Coinbase told approximately 13,000 affected customers that the company would be providing their taxpayer ID, name, birth date, address, and historical transaction records from 2013-2015 to the IRS within 21 days.

On April 5, 2018, Coinbase announced that it has formed an early-stage venture fund, Coinbase Ventures, focused on investment into blockchain- and cryptocurrency-related companies.[30][31] On May 16, 2018, Coinbase Ventures announced its first investment in Compound Labs,[32] a start-up building Ethereum smart contracts similar to money markets. In August 2018, Amazon cloud executive Tim Wagner joined Coinbase as vice president of engineering.[33]

In January 2019 Coinbase stopped all trading on Ethereum Classic due to suspicion on attack on the network.[34] In February 2019, Coinbase announced that it had acquired ‘blockchain intelligence platform’ Neutrino, an Italy-based startup, for an undisclosed price.[35] The acquisition raised concern among some Coinbase users[36] based on Neutrino founders’ connection to the Hacking Team, which has been accused of providing internet surveillance technology to governments with poor human rights records.[37] On March 4, 2019, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said his company “did not properly evaluate” the deal from a due diligence perspective and thus any Neutrino staff who previously worked at Hacking Team “will transition out of Coinbase.”[38]

In April 2019, a UK corporate filing stated that Coinbase’s non-U.S. revenue grew 20% to €153 million (U.S.$173 million) in 2018 resulting in a net profit of €6.6 million.[39]Coinbase UK CEO Zeeshan Feroz said the company’s non-U.S. operations accounted for nearly one-third of the company’s overall revenue and Reuters estimated that the company’s global revenue totaled “around $520 million” in 2018.[40]

TicketSource
TicketSourceLtd is a box-office management system provider based in Penarth, Wales. The company was founded in 2004 by Alex McLauchlan and Simon Wilsher, a theater enthusiast, to help amateur theater groups with their online ticket sales and booking. The TicketSource system still supports a free version of the software based on the original offering.

It joined the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers in 2012. It has sponsored events including the National Rural Touring Awards, the Cardiff Fringe Theatre Festival and Pride Cymru's Big Weekend.

In 2014, the company launched TicketSource in the United States and the Eurozone.

In 2016 The Times included it in a list of companies making excessive charges for credit-card payments.

In 2017, the website had been used by more than 20,000 organisers of events, and was ranked 20th in a list of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Wales.