Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School

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The Malaysian authorities has ordered the shutdown of a startup-centric assemblage called the Network School, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Billing itself arsenic “a frontier assemblage for techno-optimists,” the Network School reportedly grew retired of entrepreneur and capitalist Balaji Srinivasan’s condemnation that the United States is successful irreversible decline; Srinivasan has said his extremity is “to commencement a caller country.”

So the Network School is expected to correspond the archetypal measurement successful a seven-stage program (outlined successful Srinivasan’s publication “The Network State”) for gathering a caller society. Based successful an abandoned Malaysian hotel, the WSJ described the programme arsenic “part tech incubator, portion self-improvement retreat.” Attendees, however, complained astir moldy rooms, arsenic good arsenic a dearth of women and nightlife. 

After receiving questions from the WSJ, Srinivasan – who seemingly renounced his American citizenship successful 2023 — published a lengthy station connected X declaring himself “a arrogant Singaporean” and complaining that the WSJ was moving connected a “hit piece” that would marque him look similar “an unusual duck […] arsenic opposed to an aboriginal adopter.”

And though the existent Malaysian field volition reportedly request to unopen down owed to licensing issues, Srinivasan recently announced a caller statement for a field successful Kazakhstan.

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