Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji S. Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, tech founder, and WSJ bestselling author of The Network State.

He was theCTO of Coinbaseand a former general partner at the venture capital firmAndreessen Horowitz.

He has beenan early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols, including Alchemy, Ava Labs, Bitcoin, Cameo, Chainlink, Clubhouse, Dapper Labs, Deel, EPNS, Ethereum, Instadapp, Lambda School, Mighty, NEAR Protocol, OnDeck, Opensea, Replit, Republic, Roam Research, Solana, Soylent, Superhuman, Synthesis, XMTP, and Zora.

Dr. Srinivasan was thecofounder of Earn.com(acquired by Coinbase),Counsyl(acquired by Myriad),Teleport(acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering fromStanford University.

In July 2022, Srinivasan self-published The Network State: How To Start a New Country. The book describesthe concept of a "network state"in which digital communities crowd-fund resources to build autonomous cities and states.