About this podcast
What comes after Google, Facebook, Bitcoin, and Ethereum? Perhaps it's the startup country — the network state. Balaji interviews tech founders and policymakers from around the world on managing billions of dollars and millions of people, as well as what it might take to start a new kind of state.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 37 episodes
- #37 - Uma Roy · 54 minUma Roy is a cryptographer and cofounder of Succinct. We discuss how zero knowledge acts as a defense against AI, the challenges with AI detection tools, and how crypto makes…
- #36 - Arjun Khemani · 27 minArjun Khemani is an author, podcaster, and privacy evangelist. He previously worked at Naval Ravikant's Airchat. We discuss the moral imperative for Zcash to scale, the balance…
- #35 - Noor Siddiqui · 1 h 10 minNoor Siddiqui is the founder of Orchid, which offers whole genome screening for over 1,000 genetic diseases. We cover the transition from biological chance to choice, American…
- #34 - Sean Neville · 57 minSean Neville co-founded Circle, the issuer of USDC, and is now the founder of Catena Labs. We cover the Centre Consortium joint venture between Circle and Coinbase, the rise of…
- #33 - Ben Horowitz · 40 minBen Horowitz is co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things. We cover why a16z left Delaware, the creation of Special Founder…
- #32 - Alex Gladstein · 52 minAlex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and author of Check Your Financial Privilege. We cover fiat devaluation as global taxation, why the…
- #31 - The Don't Die Network State | Bryan Johnson · 1 h 0 minBryan Johnson is the most biologically characterized human in history. We cover the transition from the FDA era to large effect sizes, the potential of gene therapies, real-time…
- #30 - Dan Wang · 1 h 26 minDan Wang is the author of Breakneck and a Research Fellow at the Hoover History Lab at Stanford. We analyze why China has become the Engineering State while America has become…
- #29 - Yat Siu · 2 h 13 minYat Siu is the co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, which has over 600 portfolio companies and billions in assets. We discuss why gaming is the first jurisdiction enforced…
- #28 - Timur Kuran · 1 h 15 minTimur Kuran is a professor at Duke University and the originator of the concept preference falsification. We cover the mechanics of public lies, the falsification of US economic…
- #27 - Luke Gromen · 1 h 14 minLuke Gromen is the founder of Forest for the Trees (FFTT) and a macroeconomic analyst with three decades of experience identifying global economic bottlenecks. We cover the stock…
- #26 - Andrew Huberman · 1 h 52 minAndrew Huberman is a professor of neurobiology at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. We explore the design of the Huberman Health Zone, focusing on cortisol…
- #25 - El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office · 46 minStacy Herbert is the Director of the National Bitcoin Office of El Salvador. We cover El Salvador's pivot from gang warfare to physical security, the new AI and robotics laws…
- #24 - Cory Levy Interviews Balaji · 39 minCory Levy is the founder of Z Fellows and an investor in early-stage technical founders. We cover the decline of legacy institutions, where talent should go, and the shift from a…
- #23 - Cafe Cursor · 20 minBen Lang leads community at Cursor, where 1,000 users applied within days to host Cafe Cursor popups. We cover the logistics of cafe takeovers, printing the cloud to the land…
- #22 - Kamil Galeev · 55 minKamil Galeev is a writer specializing in the mechanics of historical power. We discuss why revolutions often lead to extreme regimentation, the centralization of the French…
- #21 - David Friedberg · 1 h 42 min · Episode 21David Friedberg is co-host of the All-In podcast and CEO of Ohalo. We discuss the fractal frontier, why the network wins in the West while the state wins in the East…
- #20 - Solana · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 21Solana has become by some measures the #1 new ecosystem for crypto devs. Why? We talk with Akshay and Lily on how Solana is creating Internet Capital Markets, enabling…
- #19 - Lightspeed India · 1 h 55 min · Season 1 Episode 20India is now #3 in global unicorns, and was the #1 fastest growing economy in the world from 2015-2025. How did that come about? I'm joined by Hemant Mohapatra at Lightspeed…
- #18 - Jesse Pollak · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 19Jesse Pollak leads Coinbase Base, which enables 1 cent transactions on Ethereum. We discuss the motivation behind Base, monetization for creators & companies, local stablecoins…
