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The Interview - Corona Crisis: The View from The Valley

Real Vision: Finance & Investing

Real Vision

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Balaji Srinivasan is a highly accomplished investor, entrepreneur, executive, and academic. In this conversation with Real Vision’s Ash Bennington, Srinivasan unpacks his tech-centric view of combating the coronavirus — informed by his background in the medical testing space and his Ph.D. work in microbial genetics at Stanford. Srinivasan also served as the Chief Technical Officer at the digital currency behemoth CoinBase and as a general partner at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Srinivasan also shares his perspective on what changes the US government needs to institute in order to compete with China to control the coronavirus outbreak.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Ash Bennington for Real Vision.

0:05.0

Today I'm doing the kind of interview we enjoy doing so much at RV.

0:10.0

I sit down with Bology Srinovasin. I'm going to be talking to Bology today about

0:15.6

coronavirus and about the global response to coronavirus. Bology became

0:20.7

interested in this topic very early on.

0:23.3

He has a lot of science degrees from Stanford, including a PhD

0:27.4

where he did most of his work in microbial genomics.

0:30.6

Bology is an extremely accomplished investor, entrepreneur, operating executive, and academic.

0:37.0

He was an early investor in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Z-Kash, and a number of Silicon Valley companies you've probably heard of.

0:44.6

Moreover, he was also a general partner at Andresen Horowitz, the legendary Silicon Valley

0:49.7

VC firm.

0:51.7

Bology is a very private man and he doesn't do a lot of television

0:55.4

interviews for financial TV. Bology gives what I think of as the West

0:59.7

Coast or Silicon Valley view of this crisis. It's intensely focused on technology and it's

1:06.2

unlike anything we hear coming out of Washington from the policy perspective

1:09.7

from either political party. I think you're going to find this conversation incredibly

1:14.4

informative and engaging. Thanks for joining us at Real Vision.

1:27.0

Hey, thank you for joining us at Real Vision. Hey, thank you for having me.

1:29.0

Apology, we have so much to talk about today.

1:32.0

You know, you're such an interesting person.

1:33.6

You've led such an interesting life

1:34.8

in so many different domains as an angel investor,

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