{"id":742367,"date":"2026-08-02T22:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malaysia-is-reportedly-shutting-down-balaji-srinivasans-network-school\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:20:23","slug":"malaysia-is-reportedly-shutting-down-balaji-srinivasans-network-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/malaysia-is-reportedly-shutting-down-balaji-srinivasans-network-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan\u2019s Network School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Malaysian government has ordered the shutdown of a startup-centric community called the Network School, according to The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Billing itself<\/a> as \u201ca frontier community for techno-optimists,\u201d the Network School reportedly grew out of entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan\u2019s conviction that the United States is in irreversible decline; Srinivasan has said his goal is \u201cto start a new country.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the Network School is supposed to represent the first step in a seven-stage plan (outlined in Srinivasan\u2019s book \u201cThe Network State\u201d<\/a>) for building a new society. Based in an abandoned Malaysian hotel, the WSJ described the program as \u201cpart tech incubator, part self-improvement retreat.\u201d Attendees, however, complained about moldy rooms, as well as a dearth of women and nightlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After receiving questions from the WSJ, Srinivasan \u2013 who app<\/a>arently renounced his American citizenship in 2023 \u2014 published a lengthy post on X<\/a> declaring himself \u201ca proud Singaporean\u201d and complaining that the WSJ was working on a \u201chit piece\u201d that would make him look like \u201can odd duck [\u2026] as opposed to an early adopter.\u201d<\/p>\n

And although the current Malaysian campus will reportedly need to shut down due to licensing issues, Srinivasan recently announced<\/a> a new agreement for a campus in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Malaysian government has ordered the shutdown of a startup-centric community called the Network School, according to The Wall Street Journal. Billing itself as \u201ca frontier community for techno-optimists,\u201d the Network School reportedly grew out of entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan\u2019s conviction that the United States is in irreversible decline; Srinivasan has said his goal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tcdisrupt_sf17_balajisrinivasan-3679.jpg?resize=1200,766","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151537,151454],"class_list":["post-742367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-government-policy","tag-tc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}