Balaji Srinivasan

**Balaji Srinivasan** is an independent investor, entrepreneur, and one of the most intellectually provocative figures in technology. He has made 50+ investments including Anduril, Perplexity, Polymarket, and several crypto/web3 companies. He is the former CTO of **Coinbase**, former general partner at **Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)**, and holds a PhD from Stanford in electrical engineering and an MS in chemical engineering. He is the author of **The Network State**, a book proposing that digital communities can form new sovereign entities — an idea that has generated both serious intellectual discourse and significant controversy.