{"id":232983,"date":"2021-04-22T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/coinbase-hires-former-google-pay-exec-to-lead-india-operations\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T09:37:58","slug":"coinbase-hires-former-google-pay-exec-to-lead-india-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/coinbase-hires-former-google-pay-exec-to-lead-india-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"# Coinbase hires former Google Pay exec to lead India operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Coinbase hires former Google Pay exec to lead India operations <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDQvZDQ2YTZjOGEtZjJiMy00OWVjLTliMjAtM2MyODAzNTBlYzI1LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>Coinbase, a major cryptocurrency exchange that went public on Nasdaq earlier this month, continues to actively expand in India with a new hire.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency exchange has hired Pankaj Gupta, a former Google Pay engineering lead in India and Asia Pacific, as the vice president of engineering and site lead for India.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> Tuesday, Gupta <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pankaj\/status\/1384715924314365959?s=20\">said<\/a> that he will be responsible for \u201cleading and building from scratch the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> hub in India.\u201d He also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pankaj\/status\/1384715934045138944?s=20\">noted<\/a> that Coinbase has started hiring in India, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/careers\/positions?location=india\">posting<\/a> several job <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase officially announced plans to establish a business presence in India last month, expecting to open a physical office in Hyderabad and start hiring talent in engineering, software development and customer support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan is to hire hundreds of employees across all levels in engineering, product management, UX design, research and program management within the next 1\u20132 years to build out a full tech hub in India,\u201d Gupta <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pankaj.medium.com\/namaste-coinbase-308bc499a162\">stated<\/a> in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo support our ambitious growth plans in India, we will also explore startup acquisitions and acquihires,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase\u2019s expansion to India comes amid significant uncertainty regarding the legal status of cryptocurrency\u00a0in the country. Since early 2021, several anonymous sources have disseminated rumors on a supposed\u00a0upcoming crypto ban in India. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman subsequently stated that regulators did not want to \u201cshut all options off,\u201d and were willing to allow \u201ccertain windows\u201d for people to use digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC).<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/coinbase-hires-former-google-pay-exec-to-lead-india-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Coinbase hires former Google Pay exec to lead India operations &#8221; Coinbase, a major cryptocurrency exchange that went public on Nasdaq earlier this month, continues to actively expand in India with a new hire. The cryptocurrency exchange has hired Pankaj Gupta, a former Google Pay engineering lead in India and Asia Pacific, as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDQvZDQ2YTZjOGEtZjJiMy00OWVjLTliMjAtM2MyODAzNTBlYzI1LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74858,74956,117,26293,71511,17318,67874],"class_list":["post-232983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin-regulation","tag-coinbase","tag-business","tag-google","tag-government","tag-india","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}