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The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 46:08 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, remember, um, Chris Dixon saying, like, 1015 years ago that, you know, APIs is a new BD, and software wouldn't need, software companies could just, you know, open up your APIs, and like, well, like, what's old is new.
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- ▶ 4:24 David Clark Because I kind of always go back to Chris Dixon's point around, like, the first three or four years, you kind of see these skeuomorphic applications that kind of come in.
- ▶ 18:37 David George The way we've approached it historically, and this is sort of a, you know, Chris Dixon philosophy, um, is, you know, any major space where there are multiple very talented entrepreneurs building, where we think there's tailwinds, where we…
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 26:49 unnamed speaker But it's very interesting because actually, and Dixon said this a while ago, which really got me thinking, and he's like, how many of our problems in society are actually intelligence bound versus being collective action problems?
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 23:27 unnamed speaker Um, you know, what are some of Chris and Chris?
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 1:00:21 David George And then crypto, um, the way we're doing that is working, um, you know, hand in hand with Chris and the crypto team, uh, for their high conviction bets where they're at a stage that they fit, you know, the growth fund and, um, and, you…
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Rampell I stole this from Chris Dixon, who published a post like this about probably 12 or 13 years ago.
Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
- ▶ 2:15 Ben Horowitz So if you look at like Chris Dixon and Martin Casados and Alex Rampell and so forth, like, yeah, I mean, these guys, uh, one, they've all run companies and then it would just be very hard to have that many people that high IQ on an…
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 1:05:11 Kevin Rose You know, at the end of the day, I really like, uh, what Ryan Hoover did in creating the weekend fund because it was actually based on a Chris Dixon quote where he said, like, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but what people, what the geeks are… 2 times in the scene
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 4:09 unnamed speaker I think, you know, to, uh, to riff on Chris Dixon's great line, uh, what is it?
Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
- ▶ 22:37 Martin Casado and I borrowed it from Chris Dixon, but it's very, very effective where you basically say for any company that I'm an investor in,
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 30:34 Balaji Srinivasan Um, Dixon, you know, uh, and, um, and so many of us would have, because the thing is, with computer science, there is a amazing connection between the word and the deed.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:37:53 Ben Horowitz Yeah, so this is a good, so there's a good subtle point in this that you're mentioning, and Mark alluded to earlier, which is, like, people don't trust companies, and you'd like, like, you know, the company, nobody, like, follows, like,…
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- ▶ 0:05 Arianna Simpson Chris always talks about, like, do you want to be the indie band or do you want to play, like, at the Super Bowl or the mega stadium?
- ▶ 13:24 Arianna Simpson You know, Chris always talks about like, do you want to be the indie band or do you want to play like the Super Bowl or the, the mega stadium?
Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- ▶ 23:54 Ben Horowitz You know, Chris, it was Chris's idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:32 Ben Horowitz So, you know, you heard Chris talk about, um,
- ▶ 37:45 Ben Horowitz Well, I don't even think, like, that's such an easy problem for us because, like, when you have the people we have, when you have people like Catherine Boyle, Jennifer Lee, Martine Cassato, Chris Dixon, et cetera, et cetera, like, they'll…
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 36:38 Adam Neumann And Chris Dixon was there who runs crypto.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 40:26 Erik Torenberg It's, it's Chris Dixon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:33 Erik Torenberg Like you, you know, you've got some partners like, like Chris who've been here, you know, over 12 years. 3 times in the scene
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 10:59 Ben Horowitz Well, it's kind of, you know, I was talking to Chris Dixon who runs our crypto fund and I was like, Chris, 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 36:45 Andrew Chen I think Chris Stixson had pioneered a lot of it, but what was it that gave, gave you personally the conviction to,
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 9:58 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, many of our other partners, like Chris Dixon, Vijay Pandey, have been spending time in Washington.
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- ▶ 22:12 Katie Haun Um, I will say, Devin, Chris Dixon has another horse. 2 times in the scene
Product Zeitgeist Fit and the Next Big Thing
- ▶ 9:41 D'Arcy Coolican The first is what my partner Chris Dixon calls NerdHeat.
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 32:53 Andrew Chen There's, there's, uh, um, you know, our, our friend Chris Dixon also likes to talk about the idea of, um, B to D to C, which is,
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 17:33 Andrew Chen Well, you know, one of my, um, one of the partners here, um, Chris Dixon, has talked about the idea that
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 12:04 Vijay Pande Well, I think it's been, or Chris Dixon talk about how often really great companies look like bad companies.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 4:32 Qasar Younis You know, Chris Dixon says this, uh, at a.
a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
- ▶ 15:36 Sonal Chokshi I think that's a wonderful visual of describing it, but it's interesting because we've talked about the history of tech and how these things adopt, and in many cases, I think Chris Dixon actually shared this with me a
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
- ▶ 7:50 Jesse Walden Um, and Chris
a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- ▶ 34:23 Steven B. Johnson You know, I've been really enjoying reading Chris Dixon writing about this over the last year or two, and there is really an interesting new way of incentivizing and compensating people both inside a technical organization associated with…
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 18:51 John Collison I think it was your colleague Chris Dixon who wrote a blog post about the fast startup.
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 11:02 Rob Goodman And this is something that Chris Dixon wrote in his great article about Shannon in The Atlantic where he said, um, that Shannon figured out how to
a16z Podcast | The Realities of Aging / When Healthcare Is Local
- ▶ 23:16 Sonal Chokshi We call that, we have a, uh, one of our partners, Chris Dixon has a thesis, the full stack startup.
a16z Podcast | Produce or Perish! (What We Eat)
- ▶ 13:54 Sonal Chokshi According to Chris Dixon's full stack, you know, startups thesis is that you're essentially bypassing existing systems in order to do it.
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 15:01 Martin Casado And I, I, I still love Chris Dixon's quote of, you know, every Unix command becomes a company is like crap becomes Google or whatever.
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 8:12 Anu Hariharan That's an important point because I think, you know, Chris Dixon here always says that every new thing starts looking out like a toy, and Pokemon Go is surely a game.
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 9:26 Jeff Jordan So you, in OpenTable's case is what Chris Dixon, you know, come for the tools, stay for the network.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 17:35 Balaji Srinivasan We're having another mini cycle within that, where, like, Chris Dixon and I joke that so many AI companies are just a collection of if-else statements, and, you know, it's like, okay.
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 7:27 Sonal Chokshi You sound exactly like Chris Dixon, one of our partners, who was also an early blogger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:09 Ezra Klein So I've spoken with Chris about full stack startup arguments.
a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
- ▶ 9:23 Sonal Chokshi Actually, Dixon calls it, and recently in a post, he wrote the gestation period.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 6:37 Benedict Evans And so VR, it's interesting, like, everyone's piled into VR, but I think it's as Chris Dixon made this point, it's like you have the high end product, which is very expensive, and still not like where you want it to be in the long term, in…
a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland A few weeks back, A-sixteen Z's Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things Bitcoin, including the issue that has all Bitcoin fans a bit on edge these days, how to scale the Bitcoin blockchain before capacity runs out.
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 21:40 unnamed speaker And again, as far as the ecosystem, Chris Dixon here at the firm, he talks about it as a new kind of medium.
a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 7:07 Anu Hariharan Um, there is also Chris Dixon's theory of, you know, come for the tools and stay for the network.
a16z Podcast | When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide
- ▶ 21:02 Michael Copeland You know, Jonah and Chris were talking about how, you know, they target Pinterest with this, and Facebook with that, and, and people don't go through the front door of BuzzFeed.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 33:24 Marc Andreessen And, you know, our GPs are some of the most successful founders and CEOs in the valley, Lars Dahlgaard and Chris Dixon, people like this, so we have to have a very, you know, we have to have a certain profile for what they're going to be…
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 21:22 Steven Sinofsky Let's say, look at the problem in a different way as Chris Dixon.
Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
- ▶ 1:28 Katie Haun Fast forward to today, six years later, and I co-lead our crypto fund with my partner Chris Dixon, and I also teach cryptocurrency at Stanford Business School.
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
- ▶ 6:51 unnamed speaker Um, and Chris Dixon in, in, in his post on why decentralization matters has a really interesting framing of this that the, the sort of, um, one of the, one of the amazing properties of open source is that someone can put an idea out there…
An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code
- ▶ 12:13 Tina Bhatnagar I think Chris Dixon said this in, um, one of our board meetings that like the regulation is like an existential thing for us, for the industry.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 0:51 Terry Angelos I was working on some projects there, and had flown back to Boston, um, actually having some discussions with Hey Montanesia and General Catalyst, and, uh, happened to connect with Chris Dixon, um, 2 times in the scene