Balaji Srinivasan on Crypto as an AI Accelerant

AI is great at making things up (and very quickly, in large quantities). Crypto excels at verifying what's real. Can crypto's big comeback be as a complementary technology to AI?
In this episode, my guest is Balaji Srinivasan, a prolific angel investor, the former CTO of Coinbase, and a former GP at Andreessen Horowitz. He shares his viewpoint on crypto as an accelerant to AI development and adoption. He posits that the dual technologies can be leveraged across finance, employment services.
“AI for creation, crypto for monetization, social for distribution," says Balaji.
Following the disaster that ensued in 2022- rug-pulls, NFTs crashing, and even Elon’s meme coin fascination, Balaji believes crypto can make a comeback.
He discusses Bitcoin ETFs, the risk of opposing Open Source in AI, crypto as money in the age of AI, the resurgence of NFTs, and how cryptography will affect AI job prospects.
You can read the transcript here: productledaipod.com/podcasts/...
ABOUT ME:
Growing up in Winnipeg, Canada, my summers as a kid were spent trying to emulate entrepreneurs around me to start small businesses.
I joined Facebook as a product manager in August 2013, leading the transition of launching Messenger as a standalone app and developing the AI bot platform.
At Greylock Partners, I invest in early-stage founders, with a focus on AI, SaaS, and Fintech from Seed-Series B.
I believe that AI will create massive opportunities for product-focused founders to build incredible companies with strong moats, which is what this show is all about.
Some of my portfolio companies at Greylock Partners include 0x, Tome, Greenlite, Espresso, and Roblox.
If you’re a product-driven founder trying to build a disruptive company in this era of AI, please get in touch with me.
Connect with us here:
1. Balaji S.- / balajissrinivasan
2. Seth Rosenberg- / sethgrosenberg
00:00:00 Trailer
00:00:58 Introduction
00:02:16 How AI and Crypto complement each other
00:05:33 AI struggles with dynamic environments
00:13:06 How Blockchain is transforming financial markets
00:19:18 Why banks won't embrace crypto
00:21:54 How crypto can safeguard against AI phishing attacks
00:30:11 Crypto simplifying payments using AI
00:38:18 How crypto is saving the open web from AI
00:40:12 Why crypto is key to the next wave of AI job creation
00:45:09 Crypto's role in future governance
00:51:41 Three types of Bitcoin states explained
00:53:59 How decentralized media is changing the truth
01:01:34 The risk of opposing open source in AI

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Thanks guys!

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Balaji speaks, I click

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Simple logic, tremendous impact

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AI is an everything accelerant

[@bparlan]

I cannot believe after 22 hours of release there is only 1 comment and 7 likes here... Yet topic is major that somehow J.N.Harari is 'missing' consistently...

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its being gatekept, are you new to social media? its all corrupt, duh

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