Chris Dixon
41 statements across 4 episodes · 19 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2021 by Chris Dixon · said 12 times in 11 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ted Seides (7), Sonal Chokshi (1), Scott Kupor (1), Leigh Drogen (1), Joelle Kayden (1), Ali Hamed (1)
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2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- Leigh Drogen – Quantamental Approach to Crypto at Starkiller Capital (Manager Meeting, EP.32)
- Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- Friends Reunion – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.215)
- Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
- Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- Crypto for Institutions 2 – Michael Sonnenshein – A Path to Entry (Capital Allocators, EP.181)
- Crypto for Institutions 1: Eric Peters – The Macro Case for Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.180)
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Chris Dixon, oldest first
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: The majority of startups face founder tension and issues
“And I've now seen enough startups to tell you that in certainly the majority of cases, there's a founder issue. It's a very, very stressful experience starting a company and almost inevitably at some point there's tension between the founders and it can arise …”
Jan 11, 2021 bullish
Dixon: Roughly 10% of top computer science talent is building blockchain apps
“And if you just sort of head count the very smart people that come to us that are in Silicon Valley, that are coming out of top computer science programs, et cetera, Something on the order of 10% of them I would say are building blockchain applications.”
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: a16z delegates token voting power to maintain protocol decentralization
“We also do this thing we call delegating. We want to make sure that the networks are sufficiently decentralized. And so in some cases, because we were the early venture capital investors, we own a bunch of the tokens. We want to make sure we aren't sort of doe…”
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: New major computing platforms emerge in cycles every 10 to 15 years
“If you look at the last, I guess, 70 years of computing, going back to, you know, World War II and the advent of modern computers, there's been these waves every 10 to 15 years of new computers. So mainframes, mini computers, PCs, the internet, mobile phones, …”
Jan 11, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: Computing platforms compound exponentially via an app-platform feedback flywheel
“Computers specifically have this feedback loop. When they hit this golden period of product market fit, they have this flywheel where the applications Get rapidly better. And that in turn creates economics incentives for the platform to get better, which in tu…”
Jan 11, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: Breakthrough ideas come from side hobbies, not structured productive work
“I think a lot of very important things come from those side interests and hobbies. And a lot of what we kind of consider productive work is important, but oftentimes can fall prey to short-termism, I guess. And kind of group think and other things.”
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: Corporate career progression is a local-optimum trap for aspiring founders
“In people's careers, I think you get caught on kind of a local optimum. Imagine the career landscape is a hilly landscape, and there's the highest hills where you kind of want to get to. It's very easy to sort of be walking up a hill and feel like you're succe…”
Jan 11, 2021
Jan 11, 2021 negative
Dixon: Liquidity is a bug, not a feature in venture capital
“I believe that in my business, at least liquidity is a bug and not a feature. And what I mean by that is the ability to sell something is a very, very dangerous thing and can mess with you. And I bet you that if most venture capitalists could sell their stock …”
Jan 11, 2021 negative
Dixon: Investors mistakenly impute logic onto noisy, random market moves
“Imputing logic onto things that are probably noisy and random. My impression of a lot of investing is everything from, if you could watch CNBC and they say the market moved today because of X, Y, and Z, and in fact, it was probably moved because whatever some …”
Jan 11, 2021 bullish
Jan 11, 2021 positive
Jan 11, 2021
Dixon: Angel investing is 98% about founders and 2% about the idea
“What I've come to believe in retrospect is that early stage angel investing is, you'll often hear that it's 80% about the people or something and 20% about the idea or something like that. I think it's like 98% I've now learned about the people and like two pe…”
Jun 2, 2022 positive
Drogen: Dixon and Wilson build winning crypto tech rather than predict it
“There are a couple of people out there like Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz, Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures that they're making these things. But anybody else, I don't think any of us knows which one is going to win long term.”
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Jun 27, 2022 neutral
Dixon: 2022 crypto crash resembles 2008 macro shock, not crypto winters
“To me, this feels more like 2008 than the crypto downturns of 2014 and 18. The macro thing with inflation, interest rates, the next few months will tell maybe the inflation was transitory or maybe it will lead to problems in real estate and credit markets. And…”
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Dixon: Gaming Metaverse Economies Will Provide Livelihoods for Many People
“I think that trend will only increase and there'll be more and more people who earn a living digitally. And I think creating spaceships and EVE online and selling goods and creating worlds and doing all sorts of other creative activities, for example, in a gam…”
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Jun 27, 2022 negative
Dixon: I would leave Twitter if I could take my followers with me
“If I had that same ability on Twitter, I'd switch off of Twitter. I'd switch C. Dixon on Twitter to something else because I don't like how they run that service. They have spam and a bunch of other things, and I'd like to switch and take my followers with me,…”
Jun 27, 2022 negative
Jun 27, 2022 negative
Dixon: a16z Crypto never joins party rounds and only leads investments
“When we invest, we don't do quote unquote party rounds. We don't put a little bit of money here and dabble. We either invest and lead and back up the truck and put all our resources behind it and roll up our sleeves or we don't invest.”
Jun 27, 2022
Dixon: Backing well-rounded founders leads to mediocre returns
“One of our core frameworks is invest in strengths, not lack of weaknesses. So what that means is look for people with some kind of superpower, but that doesn't mean they have to be well-rounded. The truth is a lot of great people and a lot of great companies h…”
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Dixon: True tech community is grassroots peer affinity, matching early PC culture
“To me, a community is not when you look up to a leader like Steve Jobs. It's when you bump into somebody at a bar, and they're interested in that topic, and you actually feel an affinity. And that's how the PC felt back then, and that's how crypto feels today.”
Jun 27, 2022
Dixon: a16z expects founder perseverance, not guaranteed success
“We don't expect them to win or be successful, but we expect them to try really hard. A pet peeve would be entrepreneurs who just don't keep that covenant. Hey, I'm going to quit my startup and go take this cushy job. When we invest, that's kind of the only thi…”
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Jun 27, 2022
Dixon: Surviving startup troughs requires grit and cross-disciplinary knowledge
“You get through that trough, you have to have two characteristics. You have to really just be all in. You have to have grit and you have to be willing to put up with that and be kind of miserable and all your friends say, what are you doing and why are you was…”
Jun 27, 2022
Dixon: a16z Crypto operates as an 80-person team with 50 operating specialists
“From an operational point of view, we're a completely independent team. We have 80 people on the crypto team. 13 are on the investment team. Then there's some set of back office and support, and then 50 or so on our operating teams.”
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Apr 15, 2024 bearish
Dixon: Banning Open-Source AI Would Leave Five Companies In Control
“If it's banned, which I think some places seem to be moving towards, that will end up in a very different world. It'll end up in the world where you have five companies that control the technology and just a very different economic structure.”
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Dixon: Emerging Tech Startups Need at Least a Four-Year Runway
“I think any area where you're kind of an emerging technology area, you need to run things at that kind of four-year horizon, ideally, pretty minimum, because you're just dependent on the moods and sentiment of the broader world and exogenous factors that you c…”
Apr 15, 2024 bullish