I used to follow Balaji on Twitter, he frequently had original and eloquent perspectives on things, but his incessant web3 evangelism turned me off.
It was when he was sort of an a16z partner, but also had a bitcoin startup (hardware to mine cryptocurrency) funded by them, then he made a bid to be a part of the Trump administration and scrubbed his entire Twitter timeline. This was probably 6 years ago now. He seemed disingenuous then. Don't know about him now.