Balaji Srinivasan

Entrepreneur

1980-05-24

Balaji Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur, investor, and technologist. He has held leadership roles in biotechnology and cryptocurrency-focused companies.

Quotes by Balaji Srinivasan

Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.
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The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
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