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Chris Dixon
Crypto

Chris Dixon

General Partner

More About Chris

Chris Dixon is a General Partner and has been at Andreessen Horowitz since 2012. He founded and leads a16z crypto, which invests in web3 technologies through four dedicated funds with more than $7 billion under management.

Chris is the author of Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (Random House, January 2024).

Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011.

Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies.

Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.

Chris writes about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on Mirror, and before that on Medium and at cdixon.org. He is also a frequent guest on the “web3 with a16z” podcast.

Latest Content

  • While tech platforms have helped us discover and connect with more artists than ever — including more independent artists — a few mainstream artists continue to dominate platforms. It’s a structural problem in the entertainment industry, and also involves the way many tech platforms operate today: Creators need power, power comes from control, and control comes from ownership.

  • Investing in Story
    Chris Dixon and Carra Wu
  • Leading through uncertainty (with Coinbase CEO)
    Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon

    Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks with a16z crypto founder Chris Dixon about FTX, crypto in politics, company building, and more.

  • Using blockchains and tokens purely for gambling — casino culture — distracts from the true potential of this computing movement.

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