Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Called COVID

Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Called COVID

The former Coinbase CTO sounded the alarm early about the virus. More broadly, he’s emerged as a prolific and perceptive thinker about the trust and knowledge problems crypto aims to solve.


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