Balaji Srinivasan

So you can put that one on screen, right?

So 420 cities with unicorns, which means you don't have to be in Silicon Valley to build a unicorn.

Okay.

So that means Silicon Valley is less essential.

Okay.

And Silicon Valley is actually under attack now.

That's why basically, you know, the entire concept of disrupting all these blue jobs while being in the bluest city in the bluest state in the union.

Right.

Being publicly a billionaire in San Francisco and having your face everywhere and talking about how they're taking all the Democrat jobs while in a city and a state that's ruled by Democrats is the most strategically insane kind of thing.

And as a consequence, I think.

like the wealth tax against the tech billionaires in California, the 5% wealth tax, forced Zuck out, Larry Page out, Sergey Brin out.

All right, I've been looking forward to this conversation for a while.

This is a conversation with a guy who I first heard of when he was rumored to be in the running for head of the FDA under Trump in his first term.

Balaji Srinivasan, welcome to the podcast.

Good to be here, Vivek.