Google Executive’s 2020 Move to Coinbase Worth $646 Million
- Surojit Chatterjee a beneficiary of firm’s direct listing
- He joined Coinbase as chief product officer just 15 months ago
Even for Silicon Valley, Surojit Chatterjee’s rise to extraordinary wealth was lightning fast.
The chief product officer has been with Coinbase Global Inc., the biggest U.S. crypto exchange, for just 15 months. The former Google executive’s Coinbase stake was worth about $180.8 million after its first volatile day of trading in New York on Wednesday. He’s also set to receive share options within the next five years that are currently worth about $465.5 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Chatterjee, who was 46 as of February and oversees product management and design, joins Coinbase founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam as major winners of the firm’s Nasdaq Inc. debut. Together, their stakes are worth more than $16 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.