Bio
Balaji Srinivasan is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and author whose current primary focus is Network School, an educational initiative and physical community based on principles from his book The Network State. He is a former CTO of Coinbase and a former General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Srinivasan earned multiple engineering degrees and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His entrepreneurial history includes co-founding Counsyl, a genetic testing company, and founding Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), a platform for paid crypto-denominated communication. His career arc spans biotech, Bitcoin advocacy, crypto exchange leadership, venture capital, and network state theory.
As of August 2026, Srinivasan's primary operating project is Network School, which has been based in Malaysia and focuses on building a community around technology, education, and digital nomad principles. He remains an active public commentator on Bitcoin, AI, geopolitics, and the future of digital sovereignty — publishing extensively at balajis.com and on X. These views are his own commentary and analysis, not statements of fact.
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