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Chris Dixon
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Chris Dixon
@cdixon
Programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups, crypto. Managing Partner @a16zcrypto. See disclosures: a16z.com/disclosures/
Joined March 2007
Why Web 3 matters 🧵- 1/ Topic: Blockchains are the new app stores 🧵
- Seven types of NFTs 🧵
- 1/ Topic: Going from Web 2 to Web 3 - “Your take rate is my opportunity” 🧵
- Big news to share: @a16z is expanding to the UK 🇬🇧 We plan to open our first international office in London later this year, and will host the next Crypto Startup School there in 2024. Why the UK? 👇 a16zcrypto.com/posts/announce…
- Replying to @cdixonWeb 3 is the internet owned by the builders and users, orchestrated with tokens.
- What’s next in web3? 🧵
- The myth of "ETH killers" — why demand for blockchains will always outpace supply 🧵
- 1/ Topic: Turning networks into economies 🧵
- For the last 12 months I’ve been working on a book. I’m excited to talk about it for the first time today. 📘 Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (March 2024, publisher: Random House) Pre-order here: readwriteown.com
- Some reasons to build your startup in web3 🧵
- The Web 3 playbook: using token incentives to bootstrap new networks. 🧵
- A recent criticism of web3 is that it isn’t actually decentralized, because there are centralized services in the mix, such as NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, and data availability services like Alchemy. 🧵
