#13 - Jason Calacanis on Network School
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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the show. I am super excited because friend of the pod who gosh. I don't know when the last time we did a pod was. Couple years ago. Couple
years ago. Yeah.
Balaji Srinivasan is, here in Singapore, and I'm in Singapore. I'm a little bit jet lagged. But, you're a great podcast guest because you got a lot of ideas. And so I got to co visit you in Malaysia, just North Of Singapore, about, forty five minutes. Just
slightly west. Slightly West Of Singapore.
West Of Singapore. And, you have started the network school, the network state. All the stuff you've been talking about for years, there's now a there there. Six months ago, you found a place where there are apartment buildings and, space that is, I guess, relatively cheap and available. And you've got your fan base of tech bros from around the world, and ladies, joining you to build what? What is the vision here for people who've heard of network state, network school, and and this sort of project you're working on, which seems to be your life's work? What exactly are you building?
So network school is the first node of a network society, where it serves several purposes. But, you know, The United States was started actually not just with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but with Harvard. It was, like, literally a single room schoolhouse when it started. Right? And the Midwest, the land grant colleges, like, you know, Texas A and M was, like, agricultural and mechanical. And, so that was meant to build up the Midwest, like, so you had a college and a town kind of, you know, side by side. You train the engineers and the humanists to help build the society. And, of course, th
domain name, ns.com. Ns.com. Network state. So right.
So it's network school, but it also stands, of course, for network state and network states plural. Right? And that's that's important. So we have if you go to ns.com dashboard, right, front slash dashboard, you'll see more than a 100 sharp societies around the world. And the reason for this is we have these online communities. People send if you're watching this, you're spending a lot of time online. Right? Like you're you're not By definition. Yeah. By definition. That's right. And so all our transactions are online. All our all our communications are online, but many of our friends are onli
Yeah. Where Starbase is located decided to take that town and rename it Starbase and the people who are engineers at SpaceX voted as well as some of the locals to create a new city or town. New
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