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@Rus_Khairullin @balajis is founder of the best place for entrepreneurs! 🤝
Maybe even best place on Earth 👀
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> Be Balaji Srinivasan.
> Long Island, 1980. Parents are Tamil doctors who immigrated in their 20s.
> Stanford. BS, MS, PhD electrical engineering. Plus an MS in chemical engineering. Stay 11 years.
> Teach machine learning, bioinformatics, computational biology at Stanford while finishing your degrees.
> 2007: Cofound Counsyl. Screen embryos for 100+ hereditary diseases. WSJ Innovation Award. Sell to Myriad Genetics for $375M.
> 2013: Give a talk at Y Combinator titled “Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit.” Argue that smart people leave broken systems. Most of the audience laughs.
> 2013: Launch the Startup Engineering MOOC on Coursera. 250,000 enrollments. Coin the term “idea maze.” Chris Dixon and the rest of Silicon Valley adopt it.
> 2013: Cofound 21e6 Inc. Build Bitcoin mining hardware before most engineers had heard of Bitcoin. Raise $116M. Pivot to Earn.com. Sell to Coinbase for $120M.
> 2013-2018: General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. One of the youngest in firm history.
> 2018: Become first CTO of Coinbase. Personally architect the USDC launch.
> 2022: Publish The Network State. The title alone forces a question every founder secretly asks: “Why am I still loyal to a government that does not work?”
> 2024: Open @ns in Forest City, Malaysia. 150 students. Then 400. The thesis becomes a place.
> 2025-2026: Anthropic, Ethereum Foundation, Solana, Coinbase all run events at @ns. Plans for permanent campuses in Miami, Dubai, Tokyo are public.
> The book that critics dismissed as fantasy in 2022 is the operating manual for a generation in 2026.
> Most thinkers wait until they’re dead for their ideas to become real.
> @balajis is building his while still alive.
🤝
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One week in Network School, Forest City. @ns
I want to be honest about what this place actually does to you.
Before I came here I knew it was a residency program. Builders, crypto teams, Base ecosystem. I expected a coworking with beds basically.
That’s not what this is.
Forest City is a ghost city. Built for 700,000 people, maybe 10,000 actually live here. Empty skyscrapers, empty malls, roads with almost no cars. When you land you think - what did I sign up for.
Then you walk into the building.
The community here is unlike anything I’ve experienced. Everyone is building something real. Nobody is here to network in the cringe sense of the word - people are here to work, eat, train, talk, and repeat. That’s it. The environment naturally filters out everything else.
First week I found myself waking up earlier. Eating cleaner - the food here is actually good and you stop defaulting to garbage. Going to the gym because everyone around you is going to the gym. Working longer without it feeling like work.
I don’t think I changed my habits. The environment changed them for me.
That’s the thing nobody tells you about Network School. It’s not just about the connections or the ecosystem access.
It’s about what happens to you when you remove every excuse. No commute.
No “I’ll do it tomorrow.” No choice but to be the version of yourself you keep promising.
I came here as CMO of Zeus Exchange to push our Base mainnet launch forward. That’s still the mission.
But I’m leaving here as something more than that. I already know it after week one.
Thank you @base for making this possible. The Base Founders Residency is a real thing - not a marketing event, not a conference with lanyards. A month of actual focus inside one of the most interesting builder communities in Web3.
Week 1 almost done. 3 more to go.
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> Be Changpeng Zhao @cz_binance
> Born 1977 in Jiangsu, China. Your father gets labeled a “bourgeois intellectual” during the Cultural Revolution and exiled to the countryside.
> Live in a house with a dirt floor and no running water.
> Family emigrates to Vancouver when you are 12.
> Flip burgers at McDonald’s. Work night shifts at a gas station to help your parents.
> Get your first computer at 16. A DOS 286 that cost $7,000. Start coding.
> Computer Science degree from McGill.
> Build high-frequency trading systems for Bloomberg, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and Fusion Systems in Shanghai.
> 2013: Hear about Bitcoin at a poker game with Bobby Lee.
> Sell your Shanghai apartment. Put everything into BTC.
> Become CTO of Blockchain.info. Then CTO of OKCoin.
> July 2017: Launch Binance. Raise $15M through an ICO.
> 8 months later, Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world.
> Fastest rise in fintech history.
> 2023: US DOJ charges you. Binance pays $4.3B in fines.
> You personally pay $50M, plead guilty, step down as CEO, and serve 4 months in federal prison.
> Start writing your memoir from inside.
> 2025: Pardoned by President Trump.
> 2026: Net worth $111B. Top 20 richest people on earth.
> You do not go back to being CEO.
> Instead you launch Giggle Academy. A free education platform for kids from poor regions. Already 184,000 students by March 2026.
> Announce you will donate 90-99% of your wealth.
> Still wear the same Binance hoodie. Still buy clothes on Amazon. Still ride a bike.
> From a dirt floor in Jiangsu to the top of the crypto industry in 30 years.
> Without a single viral tweet. Without a personal brand strategy. Without hot takes.
> Just 30 years of building.
> That is the cheat code most people are too impatient to try.
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$344,000,000 frozen in $USDT.
Zero protest posts.
And we are barely three weeks into April.
That is the part everyone should be uncomfortable with.
Wrote about it 👇
Ruslan Khairullin@Rus_Khairullin
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@Rus_Khairullin Crazy how fast situation can be escalated. I agree with every point.
Absolutely insane morning.
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@Rus_Khairullin Fuck everyone who don’t agree with your words!
Best city in the world !
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I’ve met people in Dubai who left London, New York, Singapore, Moscow.
None of them left because Dubai was perfect.
They left because everywhere else stopped making sense.
The guy from London got tired of paying 45% tax on every win and watching the city get slower every year.
The one from New York couldn’t justify the cost of living for what he was actually getting in return.
The one from Singapore felt the walls closing in - great infrastructure, zero soul.
None of them came here chasing some dream. They came here running from a reality that stopped adding up.
And then something unexpected
happened.
They built more here in 2 years than they did in the previous 10.
Not because Dubai gave them anything special.
Because it stopped taking things away.
No one is telling you Dubai is paradise. The heat is real. The humidity is real. The distance from home is real.
But for a specific type of person - the one who’s done apologizing for wanting more - this city makes more sense than anywhere else on earth.
BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇦🇪
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Dubai is the safest city on earth. I’ll prove you in 10 seconds.
Let me show you the real math of what just happened.
Iran fired 1,672 drones and 314 ballistic missiles at the UAE.
~94% of drones intercepted. ~92% of ballistic missiles destroyed.
Now the numbers behind that:
One Iranian Shahed drone: $20,000-35,000
One Patriot interceptor: $4,000,000
One THAAD interceptor: $12,000,000-15,000,000
The UAE spent an estimated $1.2B just intercepting the drones alone.
That’s what it looks like when a country actually prioritizes the safety of its citizens and residents over everything else.
3.5 million people live in Dubai. One of the most targeted cities in the conflict. The air defense ran 24/7 without stopping.
Restaurants open. Roads full. Markets running. Life continuing exactly as it was.
The UAE is ranked #1 safest country on earth by Numbeo 2025.
After the last few weeks - now you know exactly why.
🇦🇪
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@Rus_Khairullin “Dubai is so dangerous”
“Dubai has no freedom of speech”
“Europe is so safe”
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And before someone comments «but freedom of speech…» 🤓
In 2024 the UK made 13,000+ arrests for online speech. That’s 30+ arrests per day.
A man was arrested for posting a meme. A couple was arrested in front of their 9-year-old daughter for criticizing their school in a WhatsApp group.
Meanwhile I’m in the UAE - #1 safest country on earth, posting whatever I think, with 200.000+ people watching my tweet.
That’s the difference between FUD on X and reality.
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Ruslan Khairullin@Rus_Khairullin
Let me be honest about Dubai. No income tax. Zero. You keep everything you earn. Safest country on earth - Numbeo 2025. Crime index 16. London is 45. Paris is 50. Sun 365 days a year. The city never sleeps. Infrastructure that makes European capitals look like they’re still in 2005. You can build a company in a free zone with 100% foreign ownership and zero corporate tax on most structures. World-class hospitals. Best malls. Restaurants from every corner of the planet. You want a Michelin-starred dinner at midnight - done. Every major crypto exchange, fund, and Web3 company is setting up here. The ecosystem is real. And the people? 200 nationalities living in the same city. Nobody cares where you’re from. Only what you’re building. People ask me why I came back here after the recent situation. The question should be - why would I leave? There is no better city on earth right now for someone who wants to build, earn, and actually live well. That’s not marketing. That’s just the reality of living here. 🇦🇪
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