Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “I think VR will be to crypto what the iPhone was to the internet”
  • Virtual reality and virtual currency is an obvious marriage
• Combining telepresent Beam robots and Boston Dynamics robots will allow for a new type of remote work
  • Any type of physical labor would be able to be completed remotely
• The internet is going to catalyze a gigantic wave of mass migrations into towns/cities/republics, each with its own set of specific preferences
• “Cloud formations” is the term Balaji uses for a group of people who meet online and join forces in the real-world
  • In the future, we’ll have cloud cities and cloud countries
• Governments run by engineers will embrace crypto

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Balaji Srinivasan has quite the CV: CEO and co-founder of Earn.com, CTO at

Coinbase, Board Partner at A16Z and co-founder and Board Member at Coin

Center. In the first part of my interview with him, we discuss virtual

worlds, AI, autonomy and politics.