$BTC Secretive Silicon Valley Circle Big Shot I. Personal Identity: Balaji Srinivasan (巴拉吉·斯里尼瓦桑)
He is a top figure in the crypto world and Silicon Valley:
• Background: Coinbase’s first CTO, a partner at top venture capital firm a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), a PhD from Stanford University, the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book The Network State, and the proposer of the hot crypto industry term BUIDL.
• Current role: Founder & CEO of Network School, and a panel roundtable speaker at this conference.
II. What Network School (his company/project) does
1. Core philosophy
Bringing to life the “Network State” experiment from his book: building a decentralized community that combines online and offline elements—using technology, remote work, and healthy living—to form a new kind of community structure, with an official collaboration with the government of Kazakhstan for co-educational programs.
2. Specific business
• Immersive offline camps: constructing a physical campus in Malaysia in a forest city near Singapore, recruiting global tech entrepreneurs and crypto practitioners, offering long-term accommodation, co-working, technical courses, and startup incubation;
• Remote learning + community co-building: students learn Web3, Bitcoin, and cutting-edge technologies; earn money through remote work; and in the community, also build physical fitness and health training—creating a new community model of “entrepreneurship + life + fitness”;
• Long-term goal: replicate this model worldwide, incubate many independent “entrepreneur communities,” and form a decentralized Network State to replace the governance model of traditional nation-states.
He is a top figure in the crypto world and Silicon Valley:
• Background: Coinbase’s first CTO, a partner at top venture capital firm a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), a PhD from Stanford University, the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book The Network State, and the proposer of the hot crypto industry term BUIDL.
• Current role: Founder & CEO of Network School, and a panel roundtable speaker at this conference.
II. What Network School (his company/project) does
1. Core philosophy
Bringing to life the “Network State” experiment from his book: building a decentralized community that combines online and offline elements—using technology, remote work, and healthy living—to form a new kind of community structure, with an official collaboration with the government of Kazakhstan for co-educational programs.
2. Specific business
• Immersive offline camps: constructing a physical campus in Malaysia in a forest city near Singapore, recruiting global tech entrepreneurs and crypto practitioners, offering long-term accommodation, co-working, technical courses, and startup incubation;
• Remote learning + community co-building: students learn Web3, Bitcoin, and cutting-edge technologies; earn money through remote work; and in the community, also build physical fitness and health training—creating a new community model of “entrepreneurship + life + fitness”;
• Long-term goal: replicate this model worldwide, incubate many independent “entrepreneur communities,” and form a decentralized Network State to replace the governance model of traditional nation-states.