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Programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups, crypto/web3. Author of Read Write Own. Managing Partner @a16zcrypto .

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I recently went on Rick Rubin’s podcast. We got to talk about: - internet history - little tech vs big tech - internet economic models - composability & open source software - blockchains & tokens - software as art And much more. You can listen here:

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‎Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin: Chris Dixon on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin, Ep Chris Dixon - Apr 3, 2024

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Why Web 3 matters 🧵

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Its 2021 and the “security code” for your credit card is a 3 digit number printed on the back of your card.

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1/ Topic: Blockchains are the new app stores 🧵

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Seven types of NFTs 🧵

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Switched to DuckDuckGo and already search experience is 10x better.

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Web 3 is ownership.

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1/ Topic: Going from Web 2 to Web 3 - “Your take rate is my opportunity” 🧵

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Cynicism sounds smart short term, but optimism ultimately wins.

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Big news to share: @a16z is expanding to the UK 🇬🇧 We plan to open our first international office in London later this year, and will host the next Crypto Startup School there in 2024. Why the UK? 👇

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Web 3 is the internet owned by the builders and users, orchestrated with tokens.

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Nikola Tesla predicting today back in 1926 http://t.co/5Air6JEULu

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What’s next in web3? 🧵

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first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you 👈 we are here then you win

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The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions (by @morganhousel )

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No people I know who understand security would allow a surveillance speaker like Alexa or Google Voice in their house.

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The myth of "ETH killers" — why demand for blockchains will always outpace supply 🧵

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Gary does a great job here despite a super cynical interviewer

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1/ Topic: Turning networks into economies 🧵

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For the last 12 months I’ve been working on a book. I’m excited to talk about it for the first time today. 📘 Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (March 2024, publisher: Random House) Pre-order here:

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Some reasons to build your startup in web3 🧵

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Nothing interesting is a waste of time.

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If you don’t get pushback from the establishment, it’s not the frontier.

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ETH is internet money.

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When you disagree with someone, it’s important to characterize their views in the most charitable & honest way and then argue against the main & best version of those views.

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The Web 3 playbook: using token incentives to bootstrap new networks. 🧵

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A recent criticism of web3 is that it isn’t actually decentralized, because there are centralized services in the mix, such as NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, and data availability services like Alchemy. 🧵

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I am a huge fan of @jack and hope we can eventually bring him around to ETH and other blockchains. BTC is great as digital gold but there are other important applications that require other chains.

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web1: 1990-2005 read web2: 2005-2020 read + write web3: 2020- read + write + own

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A very common experience in crypto/web3 is to have a friend who was previously dismissive — “it’s all scams” — become a convert after “going down the rabbit hole.”

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There’s a lot of talk lately about the possibility of a prolonged financial downturn, reminiscent of 2008. 2008 was a difficult time for many people.

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After climbing the ladder, you have a choice — kick it away, or hold it so the next generation can climb up.

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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”

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In web2, you are just borrowing things — until the actual owners change their mind.

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Thea-Mai Baumann's Instagram handle was @metaverse . “You are now a millionaire,” one person messaged her when Facebook announced it was changing its name. "Fb isn’t gonna buy it, they’re gonna take it,” said another. And that's exactly what happened.

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These are the good old days.

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Who owns web2?

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It’s not a coincidence that the one web2 giant taking web3 seriously is also the only one that is still founder led.

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web3 is completely open source and open data — the opposite of shady.

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Stablecoins pose risks to consumers & to our economy. They’re propping up one of the shadiest parts of the crypto world, DeFi, where consumers are least protected from getting scammed. Our regulators need to get serious about clamping down before it is too late.

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If you think “right-click-and-save” is a dunk you really don’t understand NFTs. The more copying, the more valuable.

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“Technical advisor to the CEO of Microsoft”

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"own a piece of the internet" 🤣

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Steve Jobs on persistence and entrepreneurship: http://t.co/r7hPFaahyQ

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1/ Tokens are a new digital primitive, analogous to the website 🧵

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Going to sound really strange one day that NFTs (=virtual goods you can actually own) were once controversial.

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Steve Jobs: "there is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product." http://t.co/0AUTeevms0

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We are now at the beginning of the Web 3 era, which combines the decentralized, community-governed ethos of Web 1 with the advanced, modern functionality of Web 2.

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gm, @packyM and I wrote about the promise of web3 in the latest issue of The Economist

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web1: read web2: read / write web3: read / write / own

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@cdixon i’ve started to describe web3 as the ownership layer - could have been inspired by one of yours or another recent thought leaders tweets. 1. read 2. read / write 3. read / write / own

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read read, write read, write, own

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“You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it. I never saved anything for the swim back.”

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NFT = unit of ownership on the internet.

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“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?” — Steve Jobs

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Web 3 offers a new way that combines the best aspects of the previous eras. It’s very early in this movement and a great time to get involved.

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Why gm? global community- it’s a friendly grounding ritual across different time zones authentic community with positive sum mindset that genuinely likes each other and uses memes to signal Symbolic of high clock speed & info density wrt to code, ideas, culture, and memes.

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can’t be evil > don’t be evil

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Crypto fund 4

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1/ Today we’re announcing Crypto Fund III, a $2.2 billion fund to continue backing visionary crypto founders and help accelerate crypto into its next phase

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Hire great people — and let them become the best versions of themselves.

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Web2 is built on advertising. Big companies like Facebook and Google make most of their money on advertising, and many web2 startups build their customer base using advertising.

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Introducing a16z crypto

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a16z crypto: we back bold entrepreneurs building the next internet

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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My new book is finally here -- published today in the U.S.! 🟧 I hope you pick it up, share it, debate it with me. Looking forward to your feedback. More editions in more languages coming soon.

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Blockchains are virtual computers that run on top of a network of physical computers that trade off performance (overhead of consensus mechanism) for the novel property that you can make credible long-term commitments to users and developers.

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Why Decentralization Matters

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web3 university

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Web3 University - Your Guide to Blockchain Development

The comprehensive educational resource on blockchain development with the most useful tutorials across the web3 ecosystem. Partnering with a16z, Alchemy, Polygon, Pantera, Chainshot, Offchain Labs,...

www.web3.university

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Web 1 (roughly 1990-2005) was about open protocols that were decentralized and community-governed. Most of the value accrued to the edges of the network — users and builders.

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1/ New technologies often arrive with flaws: toy-like, expensive, janky, lacking clear applications, etc. To predict how they’ll develop, it’s important to dig deeper. Here are a few common ways new technologies can be misunderstood 🧵👇

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Notice how no one in web3 follows or cares about web2. Yet web2 advocates spend all day obsessing over web3, quote tweeting and trolling etc.

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Solana energy usage report (smart to report this to counter FUD)

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20/ But you are there! The Homebrew Computer Club of 2021 is a DAO or a Discord server, but the pattern is the same. Enthusiasts sharing ideas. Tinkerers hacking away on nights and weekends. These are the good old days - life on the frontier.

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1/ Topic: The internet treats bad business models as defects and routes around them. 🧵👇

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In every new tech wave (internet, web2, mobile, web3) there’s a set of professional cynics who achieve brief fame but then fade away when the tech they deride goes mainstream. Happens over and over.

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The reason I like the phrase “computers that can make commitments” is that it expresses the full generality of the blockchain app design space. (I realize it hasn’t caught on yet - I think it will eventually :))

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Tokens give users property rights: the ability to own a piece of the internet.

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"We need to rethink our strategy of hoping the Internet will just go away." http://t.co/JU2WZ3XCeq

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Search engines should open source their ranking algorithms.

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“Do you want to sell sugar water, or do you want to change the world?” —Steve Jobs

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Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a once-in-generation opportunity with crypto.

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read, write, own (📖, 🖊, 🔑)

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A key point missed by many web3 critics: Token incentives are temporary, used to overcome the hardest part of creating new networks: getting through the “bootstrap” phase.

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web3 needs better critics

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Collected web3 twitter threads

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Collected web3 twitter threads

Built on web3 for web3, Mirror’s robust publishing platform pushes the boundaries of writing online—whether it’s the next big white paper or a weekly community update.

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audience score > critic score

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Core internet services shouldn’t be owned by individuals or companies. They should be owned by communities, as early internet protocols were.

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“There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product” - Steve Jobs

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read read + write read + write + own

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A community isn’t just when people have an affinity for the leaders - that's celebrity - it's when they also have an affinity for their peers.

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"Hello everybody.. I'm doing a (free) operating system.. just a hobby" - Linus Torvalds, 1991 http://t.co/1IsOxtxdrM

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The only API you should trust is one controlled by a blockchain. Can’t be evil > don’t be evil.

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Read primary sources.

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Excited for tomorrow’s book launch. 🙂

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Composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance 🧵

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Web 2 (roughly 2005-2020) was about siloed, centralized services run by corporations. Most of the value accrued to a handful of companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.

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a16z DAO canon

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DAOs, A Canon - a16z crypto

Curated resources for those seeking to understand, build, and otherwise get involved with decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs

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"Silicon Valley is no longer the edgy tech frontier as workers flee Google and Amazon for crypto and Web3 startups, recruiters say" 👇👇

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Silicon Valley is no longer the edgy tech frontier as workers flee Google and Amazon for crypto and...

"I've never seen a change happen this quickly," one recruiter said as many make the jump from Meta and Google to join crypto and Web3 endeavors.

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The web3 playbook: interoperability as a growth mechanic 🧵

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Menus should have pictures of every dish.

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Probably the best time in the history of the internet to be a founder. Multiple mid/top of S-curve categories (mobile, social, cloud etc). And lots of emerging / bottom of S-curve categories (web3, VR, AI).

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AI versus human performance in image recognition, chess, book comprehension, and speech recognition. (source: )

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Why does Web 3 matter? First, let’s look at the problems with centralized platforms. (I wrote more about this back in 2018 here )

Why decentralization matters

Chris Dixon's blog.

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In the early Bitcoin days, skeptics came up with complicated, nefarious theories as to why early adopters were buying Bitcoin. The actual answer was the simplest: they saw value in the product, and thought that value would increase over time. Same is happening today with NFTs.

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I sometimes get asked by people starting out for advice on professional development. Here are a few things I tell them 👇🧵

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How open lost to closed in Web 2 — and how Web 3 can bring open back 🧵

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