Dixon: AI, crypto, and new hardware will mutually reinforce each other
Chris Dixon · Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto · Feb 20, 2025 · at 1:09
Chris Dixon, Founder and Managing Partner at a16z Crypto, discusses how current technological paradigms interact, drawing an analogy to the mobile, social, and cloud wave.
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“And so I think of that with AI, crypto, and maybe, you know, new devices, the other kind of probably robotics and self-driving cars and VR and things. I think of those as kind of the three interesting things going on. And I think they all kind of complement each other and work together.”
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