#13 — Balaji Srinivasan — The rise of cloud cities & citizen journalism

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and entrepeneur. For episode #13, I chatted with Balaji about the rise of cloud cities, the Oregon Trail generation, a decentralized model for citizen journalism, why crypto is still underrated and the best piece of advice he’s ever received. Balaji was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the cofounder of Earn.com, Counsyl, Teleport and Coin Center. Balaji holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a master in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide. He was also the first person in my Twitter feed to sound the alarm on the global pandemic back in January, something I’m personally grateful for. Balaji is a truly original thinker who is unafraid to speak his mind and someone I’ve learned a lot from just by following him on Twitter. Hope you enjoy this conversation with Balaji Srinivasan. Check out the Podcast Notes for this episode: https://podcastnotes.org/paradox-podcast/balaji-srinivasan-on-the-paradox-podcast