Dixon: Tech adoption is either institutional 'inside-out' or fringe 'outside-in'
Chris Dixon · Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN · Jun 5, 2025 · at 7:28
Chris Dixon, general partner at a16z crypto, discusses technology adoption dynamics across consumer and enterprise sectors with host John Coogan.
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“I sort of like to distinguish technologies between what I call inside out and outside in. And some inside out of things that sort of start with established institutions, like AI to some extent is like that, you know, the iPhone was like this. It came out of Apple, a very established institution. AI came out of, you know, Stanford and so forth. Whereas crypto very much, you know, Bitcoin started at the fringes, right? And sort of like open source software and there's, you know, other kind of tech movements that started at the fringes and it sort of worked its way in, right?”
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