Balaji Srinivasan Quotes

Despite their enormous scale, China and the Internet are nevertheless somehow invisible.

China because it’s overseas.
The Internet because it’s in the cloud.

Every AI agent ultimately has a human principal.

2010s: that’d be a good tweet
2020s: that’d be a good prompt

AI makes everyone a tech CEO, crypto makes everyone a venture capitalist.

The right kind of ambition is to compete against yourself. To be the best version of yourself.

If you can do it from scratch, you can take shortcuts.

But if you can only take shortcuts, you can’t do it from scratch.

No monarchy.
Only cryptography.

You can do technology without building capital (eg open source).

You can do capitalism without advancing technology (eg small business).

When fiat is inflated it slowly goes to zero.
When it is frozen it temporarily goes to zero.
And when it is seized it instantly goes to zero.
But hard money cannot be inflated, frozen, or seized.

Programming isn't going away.
Prompting is programming.
And the better you are at articulating what you want in clear written English, the better your results.

Winners write history.

So: if you do not write the history, you will not win.

Fortunately, the Bitcoin blockchain is the most unfalsifiable form of history ever invented.

A cryptohistory.

The reboot will be from the Internet. That's what stays up even as civilization goes down. And that is why I'm Internet First.

The man who wants to be CEO, because he gets to be important, should not be CEO.

The man who does not want to be CEO, because he gets the importance, should be CEO.

AI copy on the page is the new lorem ipsum.

It's lorem aipsum.

AI is amazing for small-TAM custom software.

Indeed, the smaller the market, the more amazing it is. Because small markets typically don’t support the costs of software development.