#134 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Summary

Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.

Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols. He is also the author of the book The Network State: How To Start a New Country, set for release July 4, 2022.

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0:00.0	you know, it's weird in a sense like the US and India
0:03.5	are like almost switching places are converging.
0:06.8	It's a US that is now the country that's sort of
0:09.0	got a lot of smart people
0:10.6	who just can't seem to get it together as a society
0:13.0	and they're driven by ethnic and communal hatreds
0:16.0	and so on,
0:17.5	whereas India has like a sense of itself and togetherness
0:21.1	and for its flaws is able to put it together,
0:24.3	but here's a big thing.
0:25.9	India's strength actually may be that
0:28.8	China is dangerously competent
0:31.4	and the US state is dangerously incompetent.
0:34.8	And India's in the middle, it's a goldilocks.
0:37.6	If China becomes a tech and manufacturing superpower,
0:41.2	I think India becomes a tech and media superpower.
0:44.2	Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parish.
1:05.2	The goal of this show is to master the best
1:07.2	what other people have already figured out
1:09.2	so you can unlock your potential.
1:11.2	To that end, I sit down with people at the top of the game
1:14.6	to uncover what they've learned along the way.
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