Conversations with Tyler Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
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Apr 25, 2018 
Balaji Srinivasan explores how blockchain could reshape finance, entrepreneurship, and funding, alongside the future of news, academia, and personal identity. The conversation ranges from drones and remote-controlled robots to China’s tech scene, small countries, and the appeal of charting a path beyond Silicon Valley.
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Equity As The Core Management Innovation
- Equity aligns incentives across many participants so collaboration avoids zero-sum politics.
- Stock options made multi-party cooperation the dominant management innovation in Silicon Valley.
News Will Become Executable And Verifiable
- News will shift toward verifiable, executable content people can test themselves rather than unverifiable narratives.
- Prediction markets and micropayments on blockchains could restore accountability for pundit accuracy.
Make Academia More Like Open Source
- Open-source culture publishes first and fixes later while academia publishes after peer review, making it less transparent.
- Aligning academic incentives to openness would let research adopt an open-source model.