Corporate leaders should avoid yielding to internal activist employee mobs and maintain a neutral, mission-focused stance.

“I think every company eventually is going to have to either be Coinbase or be Apple. You're going to have to be Coinbase or be Disney. You're either going to have to give in to the mob and suffer the consequences, or you take the short-term pain of doing what Brian did”

Companies should maintain a mission-focused culture and avoid allowing employees to distract the organization with political activism during work hours.

“The policy never said that. It just said that while we're in the office together on Coinbase time, we're going to engage in Coinbase's mission and avoid fractious debates that divide us.”