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25 Apr 2018 Conversations with Tyler Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
“I think, also, he’s very spiritually important in the sense that he represents the rags-to-riches story.”
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- Balaji Srinivasan
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- 25 Apr 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Why is he important to you? He’s from my father’s hometown. He’s India’s Einstein. I think, also, he’s very spiritually important in the sense that he represents the rags-to-riches story. Even though he didn’t get rich, he came from the middle of nowhere. He was very poor, destitute, but he was able to level himself up and really make a mark in the world. If you want to say what drives me is the power of the internet to do something like that. To find all these people who are in the middle of nowhere, who have been left behind by the 20th century, and give them the information, and then, with the blockchain and the financial tools, to lift themselves up and lift their communities up. Indian food in Silicon Valley, overrated or underrated?…
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