Balaji Srinivasan — Angel Investor, Author, Former CTO of Coinbase & GP at a16z

**Balaji Srinivasan** is an angel investor, technology philosopher, and serial entrepreneur who served as the CTO of **Coinbase** and as a General Partner at **Andreessen Horowitz**. He is the author of *The Network State: How To Start a New Country* (2022), a book that argues that online communities can evolve into sovereign entities — "network states" — that negotiate for physical territory and diplomatic recognition.