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By Balaji Srinivasan
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The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
Where do you legally set up your DAO or web3 organization? You might check out the Marshall Islands. They recently passed a new bill that's a model for global crypto regulation. The Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Act of 2023 has several major features: it allows DAOs to be set up in 30 days, limits DAO liability for open-source, and makes clear that governance tokens are not securities.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/ojbWm9HqVj0
Joe Lonsdale is one of the most prominent investors in technology. He's the co-founder of Palantir, 8VC, Addepar, and the Cicero Institute — and one of Balaji's longtime friends. We have fun talking about education, longevity, space, and the little matter of completely reforming all governments with the internet.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ny93ZjlR93g
Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, joins Balaji to talk about the new Solana Phone (https://solanamobile.com). The idea of the crypto phone is one where balances, encryption, privacy, and property rights are built into the very fabric of the operating system. Anatoly talks about how they did it.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/QIoXKWl4c4s
Bryan Johnson founded Braintree and sold it for $800M. Then he plowed the proceeds into eternal life. He turned himself into the world's most measured man, got completely jacked, wrote a book, and just launched the Blueprint store (https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com) for the world to copy what he's done. Now Balaji and Bryan talk about how we can extend lifespans through better technology.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/YvSX0rLyERs
Read Write Own (readwriteown.com) is a new book by Chris Dixon, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and founder of the largest crypto fund in the world. It's an important work that is simultaneously the best crypto tutorial for newcomers and an accessible reference for experts. Balaji and Chris are long-time friends and worked together at a16z for years. Here they discuss Read Write Own and the state of crypto in 2024.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/_nIQztk5KWY
The $16B acquisition of Flipkart was the largest in Indian tech history. Balaji speaks with Flipkart founder/CEO Binny Bansal on how he built the company from scratch when Indian startups weren't even a thing — and how Flipkart's rise parallels the rise of India itself.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss talk with Balaji about how Washington, DC is losing crypto, while other countries like the UAE and Japan are winning web3.
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0:00 - I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me!
0:58 - Crypto flippening from America to Asia
7:15 - Crypto-friendly jurisdictions in the US: Wyoming, Tennessee
8:10 - The SEC is a failed regulator
18:45 - Crypto-friendly jurisdictions worldwide: Japan, Hong Kong, Dubai, El Salvador
27:31 - Winklevosses expanding in India
33:25 - What comes out of crypto?
35:45 - Flashback to 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt
37:01 - Crypto and AI, without the buzzword bingo
44:14 - The Winklevoss city
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1) Gemini: https://www.gemini.com/careers
2) Wyoming DAO law: https://legalnodes.com/article/wyoming-dao-llc
3) Tennessee DAO law: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/beyond-reasonable-daoubt-tennessee-s-limited-liability-statute-decentralized
4) UAE Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA): https://www.vara.ae/en
5) Japan Web3 support: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/06/japan-releases-web3-white-paper-to-promote-industry-growth-in-the-country
6) 2013 TechCrunch with Balaji, Naval, Winklevosses: https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/disrupt-sf-13-bitcoin-panel
YouTube: https://youtu.be/STbYujxjk1E
https://twitter.com/cameron
https://twitter.com/tyler
https://twitter.com/balajis
https://thenetworkstate.com
The President of Palau and Balaji discuss how the tiny island country is becoming a digital leader, experimenting with everything from on-chain identity to drone delivery.
Despite having less than 20,000 citizens, Palau is a full UN member state. Its path to diplomatic recognition holds many lessons for aspiring founders of new communities. Joining Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. in this chat is William Wang, founder of rns.id, the Palaun government’s crypto identity partner.
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0:00 - Intro
2:03 - The Republic of Palau
6:18 - Palau's path to sovereignty
8:35 - How Palau is using crypto
10:40 - The President's background
16:51 - Returning to Palau
18:42 - What is RNS.ID?
25:08 - Palau's government structure
27:23 - Partnerships in Palau
34:15 - Diplomatic relations
36:29 - The advantages of small countries
42:00 - Palau's developing technologies
45:04 - Gaining diplomatic recognition
48:59 - Outro
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/3FuQvG2dmM4
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Editing: twitter.com/DholakiaJaydeep
Images: twitter.com/elijah10t
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Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji review how Shopify rose from tiny startup to $180B+ global economy, with an annual GMV on par with the GDP of New Zealand. In the process they touch on Hayek, the Hanseatic League, merchant cavemen, the history of the corporation, and the optimal level of platform decentralization.
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A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new countries, improving yourself, and upgrading Ethereum.
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