35: Balaji Srinivasian - The Heretic & The Virus
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Investor Balaji Srinivasian is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Corona virus and was ridiculed for his efforts by many in the world of institutional sense-making. That is before people realized he was not wrong, but simply early. In this episode Eric talks to Balaji on the topic of what it was like to see the future before it arrived and what his crystal ball suggests about what is likely to happen next. As Balaji understands our world, the Corona virus presents a complex set of challenges that will strongly discriminate between those who can pass it's tests and those who will fail them. He sees this resulting in functional Green Zones which will become dominant in the future and Red Zones which will be charchterized by dysfunctional responses. Presumably this new divide will then be expected to take over from the "North-South" divide between industrialized and developing nations.  Thank You to Our Sponsors: Personna: www.amazon.com/personna use the code RAZORS25 for 25% off Four Sigmatic: foursigmatic.com/PORTAL for 15% discount Blinkist: Blinkist.com/PORTAL Wine Access: Wineaccess.com/PORTAL FREE for 7 days AND save 25% off new subscription
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