Balaji Srinivasan

6 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 25, 2016 by Balaji Srinivasan · said 11 times in 8 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Nov 25, 2016 negative
Opinion
Srinivasan: Gawker's business model was destroying individual reputations for cheap clicks
“Well, long overdue. I think that you know, without getting into a lot on that, like, They put a lot of people out of business. They attacked a lot of people. Their basic business model was to try to destroy somebody's reputation for five dollars in clicks. You…”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 25, 2016 ▶ 27:04 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
Nov 25, 2016 bullish
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Srinivasan predicts Uber and Airbnb will become multi-hundred billion dollar companies
“I think it's quite possible that those become multi-hundred billion dollar companies.”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 25, 2016 ▶ 9:43 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
Nov 25, 2016 neutral
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Srinivasan: The year 2030 will be decentralized like 1870, not 1950
“Especially because I think in many ways our future is more like our past. That's to say, you know, 20 30 I think will be more similar to 18 70 than it will to 1950. In many ways like 1950 was sort of a peak centralization point, and either side is like a mirro…”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 25, 2016 ▶ 25:48 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
Nov 25, 2016 bullish
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Srinivasan: Uber and Airbnb have created one trillion dollars in societal value
“The rest of it is probably on the order of a trillion dollars in value that's being created if you were to compare it to what happened before.”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 25, 2016 ▶ 12:31 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
Nov 25, 2016 positive
Insight
Srinivasan: Venture capital creates a unique financial incentive for seeking truth
“VC has many, many faults, but there's a couple of things I think are really interesting about it, and one of the biggest is that a VC is very interested in whether they were wrong. You know, pass on a Series A company, and then it's successful, and it becomes …”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 25, 2016 ▶ 28:12 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
Nov 25, 2016 positive
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Srinivasan: Regulatory unbundling will be as impactful as television channel unbundling
“And unbundling of regulatory, you know, regimes such that you don't have to buy them en masse, I think is going to be just as important as unbundling of, you know, television channels or what have you, such that you could just pick a la carte.”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 25, 2016 ▶ 14:52 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
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