Episode · This Week in Startups · 2025-06-30
Books mentioned on Rebuilding Civilization from First Principles: Inside Balaji's Network State Vision | E2145
Today's show: Jason sits down with Balaji Srinivasan in Singapore to explore how he's turning years of theory into reality with Network School—the first node of a broader vision for internet-native, decentralized societies.
Balaji Srinivasan discussed Tomorrow, the World by Stephen Wertheim.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Tomorrow, the World
Discussed“And the start of the American Empire was arguably 1939. There's this great book called Tomorrow the World by Steven Wartheim that actually documents that the fall of France was actually the moment, it wasn't actually post World War II at the beginning.”
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Plugged The Network State
“And I actually did shed a single manly tear. Okay. When writing the network state book. Yeah. Because I had some of the same emotions on that you're talking about.”