About Balaji

This is the newsletter of Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis). The archive is here and you can subscribe here.

If you came here for a bio, here’s one in the third person:

Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) is founder of the Network School 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 and crypto protocols, including Alchemy, Anduril, Benchling, CoinTracker, Digital Ocean, Luma, OpenGov, OpenSea, Orchid Health, Paradigm, Perplexity, Polychain, Polymarket, Prospera, Replit, Starkware, Stedi, Superhuman, Valar Atomic, Varda, and Zora.
Balaji 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 has 5000+ citations, with 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, where he serves on the board. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.