Balaji Srinivasan - Why America Is Collapsing and What Comes Next

(00:00:00) — What if the next Silicon Valley isn’t in America?
(00:18:00) — The invisible revolution: how digital nations are forming online
(00:36:00) — Why governments can’t keep up with exponential innovation
(00:54:00) — The rise of “network states” and the fall of traditional borders
(01:12:00) — How wealth, talent, and ideas migrate across blockchains
(01:30:00) — The moment legacy institutions began losing control
(01:48:00) — Why every founder must think like a geopolitical strategist
(02:06:00) — How AI, crypto, and remote work merge into one global system
(02:24:00) — The biggest misconception about freedom and decentralization
(02:42:00) — Balaji’s final warning — and his vision for humanity’s next 10 years
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What happens after America?

Former Coinbase CTO and author of The Network State, Balaji Srinivasan, explains how technology, crypto, and digital governance could birth the next form of civilization — one built on code, not constitutions.

In this mind-bending episode, Balaji shares how DAOs, digital nations, and cryptographic democracy may replace today’s political systems — and why the internet could become the world’s next superpower.

👇 Watch till the end — Balaji explains how to build your own city from the cloud.

Highlights:
How to build a country from the internet
The philosophy behind The Network State
Crypto as the foundation of digital democracy
Why regulations kill innovation 1,000× faster than tech grows
How DAOs are funding software, science, and real-world communities
The Balaji Fund and his vision for “Techno-Capital for Techno-Radicals”
Aligning profit with virtue in the next generation of capitalism

About Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and author of The Network State — a Wall Street Journal bestseller. He is known for his forward-thinking views on crypto, sovereignty, and digital society, exploring how the next frontier of freedom may emerge not on land, but online.

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