Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon is the founder and managing partner of a16z crypto, the dedicated crypto and web3 arm of Andreessen Horowitz that he launched in 2018 and has grown through five dedicated funds with more than $9.8 billion raised. He joined a16z in 2012 and made early investments in companies including Coinbase and Oculus. Before venture capital, he co-founded and led two startups, internet security company SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee in 2006) and recommendation engine Hunch (acquired by eBay in 2011), and he co-founded the seed fund Founder Collective. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (2024), and was ranked #1 on the Forbes Midas List in 2022. He holds a BA and MA in philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.

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