@axg
"balaji’s playbook is cloud first, land last: build the community online, then find a country that wants it. the last step is the hard one. but this time, what took two years of paperwork in malaysia took a few hours in kazakhstan. governments rarely move at a startup's pace, but this one has done it before. in 1997, it moved its capital from almaty to a provincial city on the steppe and rebuilt it as astana"
form follows function https://bjrnste.substack.com/p/why-is-balaji-betting-on-the-steppe
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