Indian-American CEO wanted a new country, then a real nation got in the way
Times of India β Top Stories Β· 3 Aug 2026, 4:18 pm
Indian-American tech founder Balaji Srinivasan left Silicon Valley to build a new country from scratch, opening his Network School inside Forest City, a $100 billion Chinese-built ghost development in Malaysia's Johor. Two years and hundreds of residents later, local authorities ordered it shut over licensing irregularities, following a separate investigation into Israeli passports on campus. Within hours, the Network State author signed a deal to reopen in Kazakhstan.
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