Dixon: eSports growth will relegate physical sports to a niche like horseback riding
Chris Dixon · a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption' · Jan 2, 2019 · at 40:57
Chris Dixon, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, predicts the cultural dominance of eSports over traditional physical sports.
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“I think we're in this hockey stick right now with eSports. Like video games, it's just gonna be obvious that like, it's gonna seem, I mean, I think it's always great that people play physical sports, I'm not anti, but you know, it'll be like horseback riding, vinyl records, like, you know, a whole bunch of other kind of.”
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