Overview
Balaji S. Srinivasan (born May 24, 1980)[1] is an entrepreneur. He was co-founder of Counsyl, and is the former chief technology officer (CTO) of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.[2]
Career
In 2007, Srinivasan co-founded genetic testing company Counsyl, which provided tests to prospective parents to screen for Mendelian diseases.[1][2][5] Counsyl was acquired by Myriad Genetics for $375 million in 2018.[6][7]
In 2013, Srinivasan joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner.[8]
In April 2014, he co-founded Teleport, a job search engine. Teleport was acquired by Topia in 2017.[9][10]
In 2013, Srinivasan co-founded 21.co, a Bitcoin mining startup that failed as a bitcoin mining business[11][non-primary source needed] but pivoted to become Earn.com, which allowed senders to pay users in digital currency to reply to emails.[1] Earn.com was acquired by digital currency exchange company Coinbase in April 2018 for over $100 million.[12][13]
After Coinbase purchased Earn.com, it became Coinbase Earn and Srinivasan became Coinbase’s first CTO.[1][14][15] He left the company in 2019.[16]
In July 2022, Srinivasan published The Network State: How To Start a New Country which coined the concept of a Network State which proposes the setting up of decentralized digital communities that crowdfund resources to build new autonomous cities and states.[18][19][20][21]