Colin Armstrong

Colin Armstrong

Founder & CEO of Paragraph · Previously Google and Coinbase

I'm building Paragraph, the media engine for early-stage startups. We help founders turn launches, product updates, and what they're learning into media they own. In 2024 we acquired Mirror and raised $5 million from USV and Coinbase Ventures.

Before that, I led anti-abuse and privacy engineering teams at Google and helped build Coinbase's payments infrastructure. I also angel invest in early-stage startups like Farcaster, Daimo, and Layer3, and back venture funds as a limited partner.

On the side I build small tools like heade.rs, Draftside, and Council. In my free time I enjoy photography, wine, cooking & cycling.

If you're a founder building something early, email me.

Writing

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  1. The data spectrum: portable, usable & interoperable
  2. Wallets instead of emails for identity
  3. Spending time deliberately
  4. Personal automation with Huginn using Slack, Docker and GCP
  5. NextJS: server-side and client-side mismatch

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