About Balaji

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I am currently building the Network School at ns.com. If you came here for a bio, here’s one in the third person:

Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor, tech founder, and WSJ bestselling author (PDF) of The Network State.

Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he is an early investor in many successful tech companies, including Alchemy, Anduril, Benchling, Celestia, CoinTracker, Culdesac, Dapper Labs, Digital Ocean, Enhanced Games, Espresso Systems, Farcaster, Hadrian, Infinita, Instadapp, Luma, Minicircle, Mirror, Nucleus Genomics, Omada Health, OpenGov, OpenSea, Orchid Health, Paradigm, Perplexity, Polychain, Polymarket, Prospera, Replit, Republic, Starkware, Stedi, Superhuman, Synthesis, Valar Atomic, Varda, VoteAgora, and Zora, to name a few. Balaji also led the launch of USDC as Coinbase CTO, and was an early investor in many important crypto protocols including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Chainlink, NEAR, Polygon, XMTP, and Zcash.

As a research scientist, he published papers in Nature Reviews Genetics, the New England Journal of Medicine, Genome Research, and Nature Biotechnology. In 2010, his genomics work won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine (PDF), and was named one of Scientific American’s Top 10 World Changing Ideas (PDF). In 2013, MIT named Srinivasan to its TR35 list for his work on clinical genomics.

Dr. Srinivasan was the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.