I hope that you're wrong and he doesn't have a lot of power at coinbase
The Coinbase Retard couldn’t get Lightning implemented so they’ve partnered with LightSpark to use their permissioned version
https://www.lightspark.com/news/coinbase-selects-lightspark 
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Well he was in charge of Lightning implementation which was announced more than a year ago and now they’ve bought in a third party to do it. In any rational Org he’d be moved on but IDK