Balaji S. Srinivasan

Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur known for his roles at Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, and Earn.com. Srinivasan earned his bachelor's, master's, and PhD from Stanford University between 1997 to 2006.

Srinivasan is a former CTO at Coinbase, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and a cofounder of various companies, such as Earn.com (where he was CEO), Counsyl, Teleport, and Coin Center. He has been named to the MITTR35 and has been awarded a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award. His degrees from Stanford University are in electrical engineering and chemical engineering.

Srinivasan has been an angel investor and an advisor to companies such as Soylent, Toen Daily, Teleport, Glow, Terminal.com, Gencove, 1Confirmation, TryBTC, Coin Center, Paradigm, Shrug Capital, Cameo, Superhuman, ZenGo. His venture capital investments have been in Digital Ocean, Omada Health, OpenGov, Benchling, Tradeblock, Axoni, SolveBio, HumanAPI, and Medisas. He has also invested in Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Srinivasan made the news in March 2023 when he entered into a bet on Twitter. Another Twitter account under a pseudonym proposed a million-dollar bet that the United States would not enter hyperinflation, which had been a topic of discussion due to the country already experiencing inflation.

Srinivasan responded with his thoughts and explained that he predicted that not only will the United States experience hyperinflation but also that bitcoin will reach a value of $1 million within ninety days. With the bet, if bitcoin does not reach $1 million by June 17, 2023, the Twitter user with the pseudonym will win $1 million worth of USD coin and one bitcoin. If bitcoin does indeed reach a value of $1 million, Srinivasan does not have to pay anything.