The Balaji Podcast
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 Published On Dec 28, 2021

We talk to Balaji Srinivasan about why he moved from Silicon Valley to India, his optimism for crypto, and why India can play a leadership role in media in the coming years.

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the co-founder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.
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Links mentioned in the video:
- Purpose of Technology: https://balajis.com/the-purpose-of-te...
- Douglas Factors: https://wrightusa.com/en/Articles/Wha...
- How India can win-win: https://inc42.com/videos/how-india-wi...
- (Meme video) Feisty Doge video: https://twitter.com/feistydogenfd/sta...
- Marx's Labour Theory of value: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/M....

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Prologue
1:41 - Join us!
3:19 - Intro
3:28 - Gm Balaji!
3:48 - Balaji moving to Asia
6:36 - Balaji extremely bullish on Indians, moderately bullish on India
12:16 - Why the Indian diaspora is comparable to the American or Chinese State
14:21 - Regulatory mental cubes
17:30 - Why do regulations exist?
20:05 - Regulatory harmonization
22:37 - How the US is declining
25:17 - India plays world's best away game
27:50 - India can be Media Superpower
35:28 - Crypto Creator
40:04 - America declining as Media Superpower
45:48 - You don't need to move to the US anymore
48:05 - How India Win-wins
48:21 - The ascending and declining world
49:18 - Technological and Ideological leapfrogging
50:40 - A Win-win strategy
51:48 - Indian in the global economy
52:28 - Physical and Digital America
53:48 - The decentralized movement
55:55 - How does power struggle work in a decentralized world?
59:42 - Non-aligned movement in a decentralized world
1:01:27 - India: the bootloader of the free world?
1:03:02 - Being good in Engineering keeps giving higher leverage
1:07:13 - India as Media Superpower
1:10:40 - India becomes the doctor of the world
1:12:40 - India can achieve self-sufficiency with robotic autarky
1:13:33 - India as Astro launchpad for the world
1:14:25 - India can build next postwar order
1:15:41 - Summing up how India can Win-win
1:16:34 - Crab in the bucket mentality
1:19:00 - Indian cricket team example
1:20:26 - Crab in the bucket mentality in America
1:21:01 - Wealth can be created
1:26:22 - Takeaways
1:26:58 - What should content be around?
1:28:50 - Task for the Video!
1:29:48 - Wagmi!
1:30:06 - Outro
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Video edited by Jaydeep Dholakia ►    / jaydeepdholakia  
Channel Producer: Jaydeep Dholakia ►   / jaydeepdholakia  
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