Chris Dixon
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Chris Dixon is a general partner at the storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which he joined in 2013. He has invested there in Oculus (later acquired by Facebook), Coinbase, and other companies. He also placed early bets on Kickstarter, Pinterest, Stack Overflow, and Stripe, all of which have products in wide use today. Dixon founded and leads a16z crypto, a division of the firm that he has grown from $300 million in 2018 to over $7 billion of committed capital dedicated to investing in crypto and web3 technologies. In 2022, he was ranked #1 on the Forbes Midas List of the world’s best venture capital investors. Dixon has a bachelor of arts and a master’s degree in philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has founded two startups (acquired by McAfee and eBay). He grew up in Ohio and lives in California. Penguin Random House
2 Books Written
This book is a collection of blog posts I wrote from late 2008 to early 2011. I've been intensely interested in tech startups for the past 15 years or so. I started three companies, including one (SiteAdvisor) that was acquired by McAfee and one (Hunch) that I'm currently running full time. I also co-founded an early-stage seed venture capital fund called Founder Collective. Most of these posts ar
A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris DixonThe internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the con