Balaji Srinivasan

Visionary technologist, futurist, and advocate for decentralized innovation.

Profile

Balaji Srinivasan is an investor and technologist with a career defined by disruption. He served as CTO of Coinbase, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and founder of Earn.com, acquired for millions of dollars. Author of the influential book The Network State, Balaji is one of the leading advocates for the decentralization of power, digital sovereignty, and the creation of parallel societies based on blockchain and distributed networks.

Areas of Impact

• Blockchain, Web3 and power decentralization
• Creation of digital states ("network states")
• Bioengineering and computational genetics
• Applied futurism to governance and sovereignty

Selected Works & Initiatives

• The Network State (2022): Manifesto book on how to found digital countries through the internet.
• Earn.com: Platform that paid people to answer emails, acquired by Coinbase.
• Andreessen Horowitz: Served as investor in cutting-edge startups, especially in crypto and biotechnology.

Notable Quotes

"The future belongs to network states, not nation states."
"The internet is now more trustworthy than many governments."