Chris Dixon
19 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2015 by David Frankel · said 67 times in 25 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (21), David Frankel (8), David George (6), Micah Rosenbloom (3), Avichal Garg (3), Anish Acharya (3), Alex Rampell (3), Nick Tomaino (2)
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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2025 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- 20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
2017 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Focus On Top Line Valuation, Why Capital Efficiency Is Key To Returns And Investment Success & Why Despite Popular Thought, $100m Is An Exciting Exit For VC with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner @ Founder Collective
- 20VC: The Future Business Model For Drones & Why Enterprise Drones Need To Be As Boring As Possible with Jonathan Downey, Founder & CEO @ Airware
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 17 mentions in 3 episodes 6 per episode
- 20 VC 088: David Frankel @ Founder Collective: The Most Founder Friendly VC in Existence
- 20 VC 089: Eric Paley @ Founder Collective on Outliers, Inspirational Founders and Pro Rata
- 20 VC 085: Mark Suster @ Upfront Ventures on Being A Super Entrepreneur Driven VC
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
Everything said about Chris Dixon, oldest first
Nov 16, 2015 positive
Nov 16, 2015 neutral
Oct 14, 2019 positive
Worklife Ventures is backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Eric Yuan
“But to our show today, and I've been looking forward to releasing this one for quite a long time now, and so I'm thrilled to welcome Brianne Kimmel, founder and managing partner at Work Life Ventures, a very new firm focused on the future of work, backed by so…”
Nov 22, 2021
Eugene Wei: Network growth generalizes to 'come for X, stay for network'
“So you know that saying, come for the Tool, stay for the network. I think Chris Dixon formulated it about network products, including social networks. I tend to think that there's a generalizable form of that, which doesn't have to be tool. It's just come for …”
Jun 8, 2022
Ian Lee: Kyle Samani and Chris Dixon Popularized 'Web3' Around 2017
“The people who originally talked about Web Three were people like Kyle Simani of Multicoin and also Chris Dixon at A-sixteen Z, probably around like, 2017, 20 18, and that was, I mean, that was way ahead of its time, but for people that were kind of following …”
Dec 6, 2022 positive
Casado calls Chris Dixon the world's most thoughtful investor
“Chris Dixon, who I actually think is probably the most thoughtful investor on the planet. I really do. And probably the smartest, I think the founder network. Is just more intuitive and smarter and more prescient than any other network.”
Mar 27, 2024 positive
Dixon: VCs Should Maintain Reserves and Exercise Pro-Rata Rights for Winners
“I would say the data also that I've looked at, you know, from my own history doesn't, you know, because the winners can be just so if you're good at it, the winners can just be so big that you want to do prorata. So, you know, I it's like, it's a hard question…”
Mar 27, 2024 positive
Mar 27, 2024 negative
Mar 27, 2024 positive
Dixon: Andreessen and Dixon Personally Funded California Forever Before a16z
“We do other kind of things like we, I don't know if you've seen this California forever. This was something we did. We, it's a new city in Northern California that, you know, at the time didn't fit into the venture Fun model. So we did that, you know, it was a…”
Mar 27, 2024 negative
Mar 27, 2024 negative
Mar 27, 2024 negative
Dixon: Junior VC incentives align with job survival, not LP returns
“A lot of issues are so-called principal agent problems. Meaning the individual is not aligned with the kind of the, ultimately with the, you know, with the financial interests of the LPs, because like you're a junior person, you're afraid and you're, you know,…”
Mar 27, 2024 negative
Mar 27, 2024 positive
Dixon: a16z's vertical structure prevents corporate bureaucracy from creeping in
“We, you know, we're very verticalized now. So we're a big firm, but, you know, I run a vertical and, you know, it's pretty independent. And that's important because I think we actually avoid a lot of the bureaucracy and other things.”
Mar 27, 2024 neutral
Dixon: Achieving top-quartile board governance requires mostly care and support
“Unfortunately, I think it's relatively easy to be in the top quartile of that. If you care about it, if you're supportive in, in multiple in both up cycles and down cycles, like to your point earlier, there's just a lot of stuff that goes on when the market dr…”
Mar 27, 2024 neutral
Dixon: Crypto regulatory impact depends on agency appointments over political party
“I think that, like, generally Trump, I don't know, but like Republicans tend to skew more, you know, kind of pro-business, and so there's some, but it ultimately really comes down to the specific people they choose to run these agencies.”
Mar 27, 2024 negative
Dixon: I refrain from giving product feedback to portfolio startups
“I rarely in fact, I'm, I rarely get involved in, in those parts of the companies. And in fact, I, Probably judiciously tried to not comment on that because I think sometimes board members and investors opinions on like this button should be purple or something…”
Jul 28, 2025
Casado: Founders Can Block a16z From Investing In Exactly One Mortal Enemy
“Listen, you have one mortal enemy, and you choose whoever that mortal enemy is, and whoever it is, I'm with you, we're gonna go kill that mortal enemy together, but you get one. You don't get an arbitrary number of mortal enemies.”