5 questions for Chris Dixon: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Politico April 12, 2024
By Derek Robertson

Hello, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Future in Five Questions. This week I spoke with Chris Dixon, the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and author of blockchain treatise “Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet,” which I covered in Wednesday’s edition of DFD. Fielding our weekly questionnaire, Dixon defended what he calls the “productive use of blockchains,” discussed why he thinks that a correctly arrayed set of incentives can power a better internet, and argued for clearer blockchain legislation from Congress. This conversation was edited and condensed for clarity:

What’s one underrated big idea?

The thesis of my book is that the productive use of blockchains, as opposed to the speculative use, is underrated. The...

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