Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Balaji Srinivasan

πŸ‘€ Speaker
2887 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

The same kind of thing that you've consented to online where you enter a Slack, you enter a Reddit, you enter a Discord, you consent to moderation.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

If you don't like it, you can leave and pick from another one of those thousand.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

We bring that concept offline, just like with the Envoy kind of thing, except you sign a social smart contract before you enter jurisdiction.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And in this fashion, you opt into constraints.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

You start rebuilding conventions of civility.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

But crucially, we do it from...

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Anglo-American first principles.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

There's consent and there's contract, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

You're opting into those constraints.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

You have free choice.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

It is not opt-out imposed Chinese communist, you know, censorship and filtering.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Does that make sense, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So we restore order, but through liberty, ordered liberty.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Okay.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So that might seem very abstract, but kind of like the ledger of record stuff, I think it's going to be pretty important in the years to come.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Okay.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And so let me pause there.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

There's a lot I just said, but that's also, that gives a rationale for why the media, A, is mad at us because we've taken over the dissemination

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

presentation and collection presentation and dissemination of information we've disrupted them economically there's a you know the print media disruption graph that i always like right do we show that one we didn't show that one yet right let me show that one this this is maybe this probably should have shown this one first but um basically the internet just disrupted media that's why they're so mad at us right we didn't mean to do it but we did it um and uh here we go hold on

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So take this guy, put this on screen if you wouldn't mind.