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Balaji Srinivasan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
555 total appearances

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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

So they're trying to wall themselves off within those domains that they still have formal power over to stop that disruption from hitting them rather than leaning into it and disrupting themselves, right?

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

So now the debt, that's the background force here.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

But this factional thing, by the way, there's one more edit that I can add to that, which is,

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

The internet is splitting apart into tech America and the global internet.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

And I think, unfortunately, tech America is cruising for a bruising.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Was tech America like Silicon Valley?

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Basically, the big vulnerability, I think,

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

One way of thinking about the last few years.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

So I talked about disruption outside from the Internet in China.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Right.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Let's let's say the Internet is now there's a global Internet because there's like Portuguese tech entrepreneurs in Singapore, VCs and so on and so forth.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Right.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

There's Chinese open source models and there's cryptocurrency, which is global.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

And all this kind of stuff is global.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Right.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

I can show a graph which shows that there's now 420 cities that have unicorns.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Only one of those is Silicon.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Have you seen that one?

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

I have, yeah.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns โ€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Okay, fine.