Building Startup Cities - Balaji Srinivasan | #84

In today's episode of the New Founding Podcast, Nathan Halberstadt sits down with Balaji Srinivasan, Nate Fischer and Josh Abbotoy to explore how Ridge Runner neighborhoods and startup societies (like the Network School) can outcompete failing blue one-party states.

They discuss American cultural conditions, India & the diaspora, institution-building, and more.

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Timestamps:0:00 – Intro2:30 – “Faith, Family, Freedom”: The Ridge Runner Creed11:42 – America as a Startup Society: Peaceful Competition vs War17:09 – What Really Builds Trust? Skin in the Game & Institutions23:13 – Measuring Community & Startup Societies31:33 – Inside Network School: Silicon Valley on a Man-Made Island39:48 – Urban Exit: 20M Americans Who Want Country Life44:36 – Crypto Equity & Real Estate: Giving Early Movers Upside51:13 – Co-ops, Rent-to-Own & Ownership as a Way of Life1:04:50 – Solar + Modular Housing: Off-Grid Villages for Builders1:08:37 – Debt, Declining Trust & Empire1:23:34 – India and the Diaspora1:51:10 – Building High-Trust Communities in a Low-Trust World

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