Coinbase Layoffs Architect Exits Weeks After Cutting 700 Jobs
Coinbase's people chief quit 11 weeks after running the 700-job cut. His own exit deal is far softer. The post Coinbase Layoffs Architect Exits Weeks After Cutting 700 Jobs appeared first on BeInCrypto.
Coinbase cut 700 jobs in May, and Lawrence Brock’s team ran those layoffs. Eleven weeks later, the Chief People Officer reportedly quit. Brock leaves on August 17.
He will advise Coinbase until November 30. Dominique Baillet is expected to take his job. From Coinbase Layoffs to His Own Exit Coinbase filed the plan with regulators on May 5.
It cut about 700 roles, or 14% of staff. That took headcount from roughly 5,000 down to 4,300. The cuts cost $50 million to $60 million.
Almost all of that was cash for severance. Coinbase gave two reasons. It wanted to spend less, and to rebuild “for the AI era.”
Most of the bill lands in the second-quarter accounts. Coinbase reports those numbers on July 30. Brock walks out 18 days later.
Coinbase is going through its biggest leadership shuffle in recent years.The changes come after it laid off 14% staff in May to cut costs https://t.co/16J1oE0TVF pic.
twitter.com/WBAr8A8dbl— Yueqi Yang (@Yueqi_Yang) July 24, 2026 Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens He Had Done This Before May was not his first round of cuts. In June 2022, Brock froze hiring and pulled offers from people who had not yet started.
“We will also rescind a number of outstanding offers for people who have not started yet. This is not a decision we make lightly, but is necessary to ensure we are only growing in the highest-priority areas,” he wrote that in a company post 12 days before Coinbase cut 18% of staff. Brock runs hiring, pay, and workplace policy.
Both rounds of cuts went through his team. His own deal is softer. It pays $182,500 for three months of advice.
The filing calls that three months of his salary, which works out to $730,000 a year. One block of his stock keeps vesting on November 20. The rest is cancelled.
The filing gives no reason for his exit and does not link it to the layoffs. Fourth Senior Exit Since July 8 Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal stepped down to join a startup this month. Molly Abraham took his place as general counsel
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