For reference, Balaji is the guy who promised a massive project to put bitcoin miners in all of your household appliances so they could get bitcoins to make microtransactions with. This was somehow pitched as both desirable and possible, two things which is most certainly wasn't.

Having raised large amounts of money for this, he then proceeded to deliver absolutely nothing except an outdated mining chip duct-taped to a Raspberry Pi, and then pivoted to... paying people to answer surveys?

Everyone in the cryptocurrency sphere thinks he is a genius and visionary.