[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":8},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-balaji-srinivasan":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7],"Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and tech founder. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols, including Akasa, Alchemy, Benchling, Cameo, CoinTracker, Culdesac, Dapper Labs, Deel, Digital Ocean, Eight Sleep, EPNS, Farcaster, Gitcoin, Golden, Instadapp, Lambda School, Levels Health, Locals, Messari, Mirror, OnDeck, OpenSea, Orchid Health, Prospera, Replit, Republic, Roam Research, Skiff, Soylent, Stability AI, Starkware, Stedi, Superhuman, Synthesis, and Zora Labs, to name a few. Balaji was also an early investor in many important crypto protocols including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, NEAR, Polygon, Chainlink, XMTP, ZCash and more.","Dr. Srinivasan was the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. He holds a BS\u002FMS\u002FPhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.","His book The Network State, published in 2022, gives the movement its most cited definition: a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action, which crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually seeks diplomatic recognition. The sequence he describes runs from startup society to network union to network archipelago before anything resembling a state appears.",1788062488624]