The New Founding Podcast Transcripts
New Founding · 83 episodes with transcripts
On the New Founding Podcast, Nathan Halberstadt talks with founders and other builders solving critical civilizational problems.
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Building Startup Cities - Balaji Srinivasan | #84
June 23, 2026
Balaji Srinivasan (0:00)
How can you vote against a one-party state? It doesn't work.
You can vote against Democrats as much as you can vote against communists. Like basically, elections are held, but the party always wins. So we have to begin by, I think, delegitimating that order, because it isn't legitimate. It's not delivering results. That's why people are fleeing blue cities. That's where…
Nathan Halberstadt (0:55)
I'll begin by introducing everyone we have today on The New Founding Podcast. First, Balaji, former chief technology officer at Coinbase, former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and founder of the Network School. We also have Josh Abbotoy, founder and CEO at Ridge Runner, and Nate Fischer, founder and CEO at…
The subtitle of the piece is sort of interesting. It was quote, inside the conservative plan to chart a new political future one town at a time. And reading through it, I think we all sort of saw that there were certain ways that this either related, the project relates or contrasts with some of the ideas Balaji has…
Joshua Abbotoy (2:29)
I would say that yes, Ridge Runner neighborhoods do have creeds. In the sense, I would speak of that as a way of life or a certain ethos. Much lower resolution, I think, than journalists would often like to tell us that we have. So really, the ethos of a Ridge Runner neighborhood is the American way of life and then…
But I think often journalists, and there's a bit of a cottage industry now, they're trying to paint a picture of a very top-down ideological project. They want it to be at some level politically revolutionary or like a conspiracy.
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