About the Author

CHRIS DIXON is a general partner at the storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which he joined in 2013. There, he has invested in Oculus (later acquired by Facebook), Coinbase, and other companies. He also placed early bets on Kickstarter, Pinterest, Stack Overflow, and Stripe, all of which have products in wide use today. Dixon founded and leads a16z crypto, a division of the firm that he has grown from $300 million in 2018 to more than $7 billion of committed capital dedicated to investing in crypto and blockchain technologies. In 2022, he was ranked #1 on the Forbes Midas List of the world’s best venture capital investors.

Dixon has bachelor of arts and master’s degrees in philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and he founded two startups (acquired by McAfee and eBay). He grew up in Ohio and lives in California.

Note: None of the foregoing is investment, business, legal, or tax advice. Please note that the author is a general partner of a16z, an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As of this writing, a16z and its affiliates maintain investments in several of the companies, tokens, or blockchains discussed in this book. A list of investments made by a16z is available at a16z.com/investment-list/.