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Balaji: Interviewed for Senior FDA Role and Turned Down No. 2 Position
“I mean, or rather I was interviewed for a very senior role. And I probably could have been At least number two that was on the table. But I chose not to, I mean, it's now a few years later.”
Balaji plans to fund global pseudonymous writers and diverse voices
“So what I want to do is invest in lots of individual you know, diverse influencers, pseudonymous voices around the world. Okay. So basically, you know, everything that's not Brooklyn wokes, you know, all of these other voices that are underrepresented in our c…”
Balaji stops hiring from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, recruiting via Twitter instead
“I don't hire actually from Stanford or Harvard or MIT or whatever anymore. You know where I hire from? Twitter.”
Balaji: I invest on an ideological basis, passing on pure financial plays
“I invest on an ideological basis.
I invest in the world that I'd want to build, and there's probably things which are
You know, good financial investments that you know, I just not interested in something.
If it's just making money, I can sort of force myself…”
Srinivasan: Early investor in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, and innovative coins
“I was an early investor in cryptocurrencies. So Bitcoin, Ethereum Zcash, a bunch of other ones you've heard of. I shouldn't say every major coin, but every major coin that I think has some technological innovation you know, I've probably got like something in …”
Srinivasan: Early investor in Superhuman, Soylent, Replit, and Deel
“Early investor in Superhuman, Soylent, Cameo, Lambda School, Replit Mighty, a bunch of others have all done fairly well. You know, Deal, if you just saw that just became a unicorn or whatever last week.”
Srinivasan: Initial goal is building a global community of technological progressives
“The way I look at it is the V one goal is to build a community, at least with seven to eight nine, then I'll talk about the V two is to build a community of technological progressives who are,
Like, I mean, sort of like YC's founders, but not just tech founder…”
Balaji: Andreessen, Horowitz, Ravikant, Armstrong, and Ehrsam are daily intellectual sparring partners
“Mark and I have kept up a high bandwidth conversation for almost a decade now. Mark and Ben for sure. Neville Rovi-Kant you know, who's a very good friend of mine. And Armstrong, Fred Urson. These are really smart guys who like basically folks who I get a boun…”