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Forest City apartments in Johor, Malaysia, on Sept. 1, 2023. Photo: VCG
The abrupt closure of Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School deals a blow to efforts to revive the struggling Chinese-backed Forest City mega-development
Malaysia revoked Network School's licenses—a tech co-living community in Chinese-backed Forest City founded by ex-Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. The closure exposes geopolitical constraints on Western tech recruitment in Southeast Asia, signaling visa and mobility policy risks for distributed talent strategies.
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