Shervin Pishevar

Yeah. I helped start the network state movement with biology and Joe Lonsdale. I had lunch with Joe like 2012 and I said, Hey, what if we started, you know, new cities that had sovereignty, new city States and tokenize it and have ownership become citizenship become ownership. We started hosting new city salons and Balaji came to it and then Balaji wrote Network States, the book.

Yeah. I helped start the network state movement with biology and Joe Lonsdale. I had lunch with Joe like 2012 and I said, Hey, what if we started, you know, new cities that had sovereignty, new city States and tokenize it and have ownership become citizenship become ownership. We started hosting new city salons and Balaji came to it and then Balaji wrote Network States, the book.

Yeah. I helped start the network state movement with biology and Joe Lonsdale. I had lunch with Joe like 2012 and I said, Hey, what if we started, you know, new cities that had sovereignty, new city States and tokenize it and have ownership become citizenship become ownership. We started hosting new city salons and Balaji came to it and then Balaji wrote Network States, the book.

And then we had the first two Network States summits. That movement led to another mantra of mine, which is great founders should try to start new industries, not just companies.

And then we had the first two Network States summits. That movement led to another mantra of mine, which is great founders should try to start new industries, not just companies.

And then we had the first two Network States summits. That movement led to another mantra of mine, which is great founders should try to start new industries, not just companies.

should start a completely new industry like Hyperloop was a new industry and in this case network states and new cities is a new industry and there's now hundreds of startups starting new nations Praxis is another one of them that I'm involved in that's one of the largest network states and they're looking at a million acres of land

should start a completely new industry like Hyperloop was a new industry and in this case network states and new cities is a new industry and there's now hundreds of startups starting new nations Praxis is another one of them that I'm involved in that's one of the largest network states and they're looking at a million acres of land

should start a completely new industry like Hyperloop was a new industry and in this case network states and new cities is a new industry and there's now hundreds of startups starting new nations Praxis is another one of them that I'm involved in that's one of the largest network states and they're looking at a million acres of land

in different places in the world and that have been helping them with but we're going to basically see new nation states new countries be started in our lifetimes and you're going to see a lot of people opt into those new nations so i think that's that's one of my probably more controversial uh the world map 200 years ago looks very different than it does today and it's going to look very different in 200 years nations are not supposed to be permanent they're supposed to evolve

in different places in the world and that have been helping them with but we're going to basically see new nation states new countries be started in our lifetimes and you're going to see a lot of people opt into those new nations so i think that's that's one of my probably more controversial uh the world map 200 years ago looks very different than it does today and it's going to look very different in 200 years nations are not supposed to be permanent they're supposed to evolve

in different places in the world and that have been helping them with but we're going to basically see new nation states new countries be started in our lifetimes and you're going to see a lot of people opt into those new nations so i think that's that's one of my probably more controversial uh the world map 200 years ago looks very different than it does today and it's going to look very different in 200 years nations are not supposed to be permanent they're supposed to evolve

I had the opportunity to invest in Snapchat in the seed round and I had the opportunity to invest in Pinterest in the seed round.

I had the opportunity to invest in Snapchat in the seed round and I had the opportunity to invest in Pinterest in the seed round.

I had the opportunity to invest in Snapchat in the seed round and I had the opportunity to invest in Pinterest in the seed round.

So I brought Snapchat to Menlo Evan and I hit it off. I really believe that. I was on it in the first 30 days because my kids were on it. And so they showed it to me and I was chasing it and Evan and I hit it off. Unfortunately, Menlo passed on that round and then the next round as well. And then Pinterest, I looked at when I was angel investing. So that was my own, fully my fault.

So I brought Snapchat to Menlo Evan and I hit it off. I really believe that. I was on it in the first 30 days because my kids were on it. And so they showed it to me and I was chasing it and Evan and I hit it off. Unfortunately, Menlo passed on that round and then the next round as well. And then Pinterest, I looked at when I was angel investing. So that was my own, fully my fault.

So I brought Snapchat to Menlo Evan and I hit it off. I really believe that. I was on it in the first 30 days because my kids were on it. And so they showed it to me and I was chasing it and Evan and I hit it off. Unfortunately, Menlo passed on that round and then the next round as well. And then Pinterest, I looked at when I was angel investing. So that was my own, fully my fault.

And one lesson I learned there is I did the meeting with Ben Because I met him through Jack Abraham, and I had funded Jack when he was 22 in his company Milo. And then he introduced me because he invested in the seed round of Pinterest. I was like, you should take a look at this. And at the time, I was talking about social commerce being the next big wave.

And one lesson I learned there is I did the meeting with Ben Because I met him through Jack Abraham, and I had funded Jack when he was 22 in his company Milo. And then he introduced me because he invested in the seed round of Pinterest. I was like, you should take a look at this. And at the time, I was talking about social commerce being the next big wave.