Balaji Srinivasan on The Network State

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 166 minutes

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In this episode, we’ll explore the concept of The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan. As the world becomes more digital, it also becomes more distributed. This is obvious on the individual level – how you order goods, the way you chat with friends, and the news you consume… all from a handheld computer. It’s also becoming more obvious at the company level. The pandemic shook the world into remote work and many companies have decided that maybe work can be done in ways they never imagined. But what about the state – whatever that means? Could the network rival the state? In this episode we’ll explore what a nation state even is and how it may be challenged by a new Leviathan: the network. We also cover the difference between a nation and a state, how constants become variables, the cloud continent, digital power, your identity stack, calibrating risk, polycentric law, cloud regulations, building fast with atoms, founding vs inheriting, the powerful vs the powerless, and just about everything in between.

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0:00.0	Had somebody actually said, oh, I'm going to have found a currency in 2007, 2008,
0:04.4	almost every VC would have looked to them like they had four eyes.
0:10.0	Today I had the absolute pleasure of talking to who I think is one of the most fascinating minds on the planet right now.
0:16.5	That is Bology Sreeney Boston, who you might recognize as the former C. T. of Coinbase, former general partner at Andresen Horowitz.
0:23.2	He was also the co-founder of Genetictestingcompany Council and Earned.com, which was acquired
0:28.0	by coinbase, an angel investor in many successful companies like Deal, Replet, and
0:32.3	superhuman. And today we brought him in to discuss in many successful companies like Deal, Replet, and Superhuman,
0:33.0	and today we brought him in to discuss his best-selling book, The Network State.
0:38.0	And as you can imagine when you talk to biology for three hours,
0:41.0	you can cover a lot of ground.
0:42.0	In this episode, we cover the difference
0:44.3	between a nation and a state, how constants become variables, the cloud continent, the newest
0:49.0	Leviathan, digital power, your identity stack, calibrating risk, polycentric law, cloud regulations,
0:55.1	building fast with atoms, founding versus inheriting, the powerful versus the powerless, and
1:00.1	just about everything in between.
1:02.0	So I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
1:06.9	The content here is for informational purposes only should not be taken as legal
1:11.2	business tax or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment
1:15.0	or security and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund.
1:20.7	For more details, please see A16Z.com
1:23.0	slash disclosures. All right, we've got Bolligy on the line.
1:35.0	Bology, thanks so much for being here.
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