The crazy thing to me is that he gave an interview? once in how genomics is not "big data" in the same way that anything else is big data in tech and that interview seems to have been memory holed, even though imo it's the most profound analysis I think he has ever given (I used to work in genomics and now I work in ml), and there is a real sub community of the tech sector that needs to understand what he said but doesn't.
Memory holed is a good term for balaji. I don't recall the specifics but a few years back I put him in a bucket of people not worth listening to.
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.