Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji Srinivasan is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and author best known as the former CTO of Coinbase, a former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and the writer of The Network State, a bestselling book proposing that online communities could crowdfund territory and grow into new polities. He co-founded the genetic testing company Counsyl (acquired by Myriad Genetics for $375 million), the Bitcoin venture that became Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase in 2018, which made him its first CTO), Teleport, and the crypto policy nonprofit Coin Center. Holding a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering plus an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford, he once taught statistics and data mining there, and he has been an early investor in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, OpenSea, and Alchemy among many others. In 2024 he acquired an island near Singapore to host the Network School, a physical prototype of his network state ideas, and his 2023 million-dollar bet on rapid dollar hyperinflation became one of the most debated wagers in crypto history.

27 talks by Balaji Srinivasan

• AI, Cryptography and Network School
• Building a 100-Year Decentralized Organization: The RSS
• TOKEN2049: Bunker Mode?
• Will AI Break Cryptography?
• The Open Source Network State
• Polymarket Fireside Chat
• Network States, Network School, & Ethereum [remote] - Balaji Srinivasan
• The Zcash Network State
• Zuzalu and d/acc
• Cryptoidentity
• The Network States of the Internet
• Prediction Markets Fireside Chat
• Technodemocracy
• Don't Die Network State
• The Network State of the Union
• From 1,000 Startup Communities to 1 Network State
• Securing the Network State
• The Fiat Crisis
• Balaji Bets the Dollar will Hyperinflate. NOT A DRILL!
• Balaji Srinivasan: Applications: Today & 2025
• Vitalik on Starting New Countries and Improving Yourself
• The Birth of Network States: A conversation about network states, popularized by Balaji Srinivasan
• 131 - Rise of the Network State | Balaji Srinivasan
• The Chopping Block: A Network State in 10 Years? Balaji Srinivasan Says Yes - Ep. 379