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a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: AI will drive global professional wages toward $20K equilibrium
“If you've got, let's say, a lawyer who's making 200 K a year in the US or a doctor in the West, and then you've got somebody from the Philippines or India or anywhere in the world who's making currently 2000 dollars a year, maybe the converged wage with AI plu…”
Balaji Srinivasan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 1:08:28 Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: The FDA caused one million preventable COVID-19 deaths
“And you could have avoided like a million dead. That million dead is on the FDA's head, like, because challenge trials could have been done, you know?”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 1:28:04 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivasan: Crypto will replace Yale Law, Columbia Journalism, and Kennedy School
“Crypto is not just, you know, the next wall street. It's also the next Silicon Valley because decentralized social networks and so on are built there, but even less, obviously it's the next Yale law and Columbia school of journalism and Kennedy school of gover…”
Balaji Srinivasan May 5, 2021 ▶ 1:30:35 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Centralized Bitcoin on Coinbase and MicroStrategy will likely be seized
“Like, will all the centralized Bitcoin on Coinbase's servers, Sailor servers, et cetera, get seized? I think it's quite likely. I think it eventually gets seized in some exigent circumstance.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 1:01:40 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Journalism is the non-consensual invasion of privacy for profit
“So journalism, as the non-consensual invasion of privacy for profit, really captures what it is these critters do.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 21:55 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Media claims positive influence while denying negative societal impacts
“When it comes publisher time, they will admit that their stories led to something. But when it comes BLM time, they deny that their stories led to America, you know, half America getting burned down. So it's a one-way ratchet where they take all the credit and…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 25:35 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Musk's Twitter acquisition liberated Meta and YouTube from censorship
“X-Day was also the liberation of Meta and liberation of YouTube, right? All the countries that these racial fanatics at the NYT had occupied, right? All the networks they had occupied. That was like, you know how, like, the Nazi empire was at, like, its peak, …”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 34:45 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: San Francisco homeless NGOs profit from rising homelessness and addiction
“The homeless industrial complex, so that shows that the NGOs, as their budget rises, the homeless population rises with it. They're basically paid to get people addicted to drugs.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 43:55 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Cutting USAID funding destroys the Democratic institution business model
“Really, what's happening is the cutoff of USAID is rolling up Blue Empire, so it's killing the blue business model.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:09:29 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Democrats destroyed democracy in California and created a one-party state
“In California, elections are held, but the party always wins, exactly like China. Okay, Democrats destroyed democracy in California.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:39:05 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
Balaji: Rate hikes will cause systemic failure across the US banking sector
“Powell is crashing the plane, and SVB and FRC and others were just positioned near the front of the plane. Okay. So like everybody's gonna die is my point.”
Balaji Srinivasan May 11, 2023 ▶ 12:19 Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji: US federal loyalists will switch allegiance to China during financial collapse
“And so one thing I don't think people are taking into account is that a lot of people who are you know, Currently very for the federal government. If it has serious financial difficulty, we'll simply fold into the new Chinese overlords.”
Balaji Srinivasan May 11, 2023 ▶ 43:40 Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
Balaji: Gold Seizure-Style Executive Order Will Be Attempted in US
“What I do think is I think that there is probably enough strength among grays and reds to prevent a complete repeat of executive order. Six one Oh two. I think it's going to be attempted.”
Balaji Srinivasan May 11, 2023 ▶ 54:11 Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
a16z What-if
Balaji Srinivasan: A COVID-19 vaccine could have been deployed in one week
“This is actually at the beginning of the pandemic, by the way, we could have had a vaccine in a week. Why? Because mRNA vaccines could be printed out. All that time over those nine months was not spent, I mean, some of it was spent manufacturing or whatever, b…”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 1:11:05 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Tech journalists act as hitmen for legacy inherited wealth
“A lot of these tech journalists are basically employees of some east coast nepotist Who's inherited millions of dollars and or a newspaper and is funding their whole operation. So they're meritless nepotous and or employees thereof who are attacking the self-m…”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 1:50:12 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Srinivasan: Centralized Science Post-WWII Became Equivalent to a State Religion
“The bad that came out of it is you built this centralized funnel as opposed to lots of folks with independent power centers and funding sources, figuring out stuff from their own. Instead, you had like a single Thing, which was like official science and offici…”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 44:21 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Balaji: Corporate journalists act as hit men for old money targeting tech
“You know the names of all the tech people, because media corporations are at war with tech companies, and the owners of media corporations are It's not that they get good coverage. They get no coverage. They're just like blotted out, you know, all of this rhet…”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 58:12 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Western governments will lose battle against decentralized network elite
“And I think that Western governments will lose. It's going to be super nasty and super gnarly, but on balance, they will lose because their ideology is not one that attracts the very top talent.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 1:13:40 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivasan: Bitcoin Is on Track to Become the 'Government of Governments'
“Bitcoin, the reason I say Bitcoin specifically is it's, you know, it's on track. We will see if it can actually get there. Cause it's got various kinds of issues, you know, privacy and other kinds of things that, you know, but It's on track to be the governmen…”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 1:52:47 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Srinivasan: Child labor laws triggered a long campaign of societal infantilization
“Reasonably, all these child labor laws were passed that essentially began this long campaign of infantilization. And now it's something where you're like on your parents' health insurance till age”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 2:10:07 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
ALL-IN Opinion
Balaji: China is modern Nazi Germany, woke US is Soviet Russia
“China is like the new Nazi Germany woke America is like the new Soviet Russia and the decentralized center is going to be the new America.”
Balaji Srinivasan Sep 25, 2021 ▶ 22:26 Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
Balaji: The woke movement and CCP are driving a counterattack for conformity
“What I think we have now is a strong counterattack in favor of conformity by both, you know, kind of like the woke contingent and like, you know, CCP.”
Balaji Srinivasan May 5, 2021 ▶ 1:14:07 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
a16z Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: AI does not take jobs, it makes workers CEOs
“AI doesn't take your job, AI makes you the CEO.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 38:42 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Large language models will not lead to AGI
“No. Actually, the opposite.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 0:30 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: AI will make the global internet resemble China's
“I actually think AI makes the internet a lot more like the Chinese internet.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 7:04 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: China will stop autonomous AI using cryptographic kill switches
“Way before it gets there, I'm pretty sure that kind of thing will be stopped from the Chinese because they will just have cryptographic keys that will just make all those things shut off, okay?”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 25:23 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Centralized US AI firms won't reach trillions due to backlash
“So I don't think that in that form they're going to get to trillions. In fact, I think the counterattack on them is going to be so dramatic that it might be that you just have decentralized AI.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 52:03 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srinivasan: US regulatory assault blocked tech IPOs and M&A for four years
“For four years, it was just a desert. A bunch of companies silently died. The state blocked IPOs. They're blocking M&As. It was just an all-out anti-tech assault.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
a16z Opinion
Srinivasan: Twitter elected Trump in 2016, and X elected him in 2024
“Twitter elected Trump, and then Twitter deplatformed Trump, and then ex-elected Trump.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 6:52 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
a16z Insight
Srinivasan: Tech platforms replaced government agencies as functional industry regulators
“The actual regulator of taxis is Uber or Lyft because they have real-time tracking. They have star ratings on both sides. Or your you know, some, you know, the FCC or something like who issued licenses. Well, the actual regulator of speech or what have you sai…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 15:09 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
a16z Opinion
Srinivasan: Tech platforms face market constraints, but Washington DC is a monopoly
“See the thing is these platforms are at least competing with other platforms, and if Apple or Microsoft or Google makes too bad decision, Then the people on those platforms have exit, they have choice, they can move between platforms, so there's ultimately a m…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 17:57 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
a16z Insight
Srinivasan: Startup competition regulates big tech better than government antitrust policy
“The actual way of regulating big companies is with a thousand startup piranhas, not by this regulation.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 37:20 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
a16z Assertion Supported
Srinivasan: Google paid over $100 million into Windsurf's account for dividends
“Google put a hundred million plus in the bank account of WindSurf where the intent was to dividend it out.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 49:34 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivasan: Futurism versus primitivism will replace the left-right political axis
“I think it's going to become actually the future political axis between futurism and primitivism. That's going to be the new left, right after the whole thing finishes rotating.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 1:04:51 Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
a16z Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: Financial collapse drove legacy media to adopt ideological wokeness
“This is actually what led to wokeness because it was, you know, you've heard the saying go woke, go broke, right? Yeah. But in their case, it was actually go broke, go woke. Okay. Not my original coinage, but applied to this graph, it's relatively original bec…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:45 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: The New York Times is A.G. Sulzberger's personal blog
“But with the NYT, they're granted The enormous shield of calling it the NYT, calling it the institution, as opposed to Sulzberger's paper. It is just Sulzberger's paper. It's his blog, right? There's nothing that is printed there without his approval, right?”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 14:27 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: NYT, WSJ, and WaPo functioned as the presidency's board
“Think of Wall Street Journal, NYT, and Washington Post as the three board of director seats on top of the presidency. The president was, it was like the titular CEO, But the Journal, the Times, and the Washington Post, if they all put their multi-sig key in th…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 25:08 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: Internet and China disrupted Blue and Red America differently
“Blue America was disrupted by the internet, and so they began wokeness to take a piece of Red America's pie, and the tech clash to try and take back control from the internet. Red America was disrupted by China, so the trade war was against China, and Trump wa…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 31:51 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: Tech founders must build direct distribution and bypass journalists
“Build your own distribution to avoid distortion, ok? That is to say, any content you have, it should be posted on your feeds. Why would you go and feed it to some journo? You've got some scoop. You don't need them for distribution anymore.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 45:50 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Journalists and communists use identical subversion tactics
“The communists and the journalists are the same, but I repeat myself, right?”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 59:53 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Effective altruists seek pawns rather than peers
“Guys like these effective altruists or these guys, They don't want peers. They want pawns, right?”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:03:05 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Opinion
Balaji Srinivasan: Media targeted Uber and VCs to block libertarian tech
“Why they go after Uber, right? They didn't want another trillion dollar company, certainly not a libertarian one. Why they go after VCs? They're the ones distributing capital. If they go after these nexus points, these critical nodes, they could try to hit tho…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:12:19 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Balaji Srinivasan: The Atlantic published an article advocating for invading Brazil
“Like, a great example is The Atlantic published this crazy piece calling for invading Brazil because they saw a photo of the Brazilian fires, ok?”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:18:10 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Balaji Srinivasan: NYT won Pulitzer Prizes for false Russiagate coverage
“The New York Times collected all these polizers for this, for basically false information, right?”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:19:54 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: AI can automatically surface every historical contradiction in NYT archives
“AI can do that. AI can do that. AI can find every internal contradiction to NYT ever, ok? And so you could just have them, NYT versus NYT, like, you know, they're enslaving people, and then they're pretending they're, you know, like, there's just so many thing…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:25:46 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Decentralized networks will replace the state as authority of truth
“So it gets a very fundamental thing where tech guys are sensing there's something here, but ultimately the network has to supplant the state as the form of truth.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:28:43 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Uber VCs leaked information because Travis Kalanick resisted IPO
“At Uber, like the VCs there wanted money and Travis didn't want to sell or IPO. So that's why they did it in part.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:32:35 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaji Srinivasan: Voting with your feet will be the only remaining democracy
“So the problem is that you have Democrats, Republicans, and Communists that have all created basically one-party states, where the only democracy then is going to be the right to exit. To vote with your feet.”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:39:52 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
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