Balaji Srinivasan
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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Basically to show that you can essentially print out the internet, that you can actually build physical social networks.
I think that's the next step for what we're doing in tech, where we are not simply building data centers with closed doors, but we're building tech communities.
Think of it as, you know, look, all these people are leaving Silicon Valley.
You know, you have Larry Page and Zuck and Sergey Brin, Elon, of course, Peter Thiel, Travis Kalanick of Uber all left California.
Jeff Bezos left Washington.
It's no longer the place for capital formation.
And unfortunately, talent can't get into the U.S.
either.
And so basically Silicon Valley, as we know it, is actually over.
This year of IPOs, in my view, is like the last giant, you know, bang on the thing.
And we need to decentralize Silicon Valley around the world.
And in fact, that already exists in a sense where there's a network of these Silicon Valleys
There's Silicon Valley of Uzbekistan and Moldova.
All these places want a Silicon Valley of X. They've wanted it for many years, but now is actually the time to decentralize Silicon Valley.
Just like we have Google offices and data centers around the world, we actually have the tech community all over the world because the tech community draws from the world, right?
Okay, so that's it.
You're behind network school.
We did the first one here.
Let me give a little bit more theory.