Chris Dixon

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4,223 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 1 Aug

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The a16z Show · Chris Dixon: From Quant Trading to Building a16z Crypto · 2 Mar 2026 podcast

Um, they were probably, you know, looking at people that had some ex had been doing it for some period of time.

I mean, I don't know exactly why.

But uh I think in the end we just sort of hit it off.

Yeah.

I mean I was I think this is a fairly common thing in tech, but I just as a kid, like got a computer.

Um, this is back in the nineteen eighties and like

uh just, you know, wanted to make video games and enjoyed programming and it was rel you know, it was kind of a cultish, I don't know, niche activity back then.

And uh and just you know, really enjoyed it.

Like I've I think kind of, you know, we'd say today got into a flow state and just sort of designing stuff and

sort of uh figuring it all out.

Um and uh

Yeah.

And it just really and I so I'm I you know, I was doing uh C programming and assembly language programming and making graphics stuff and video games.

Um and was really into it.

And then I um

I was in a s in college in the early nineties and um at the time I kind of felt like computing had gotten too corporate and like it was sort of uh before the internet had really taken off.

And for those who remember it the the computer industry kind of moved from like a hobbyist phase to more of like

Microsoft's Office, Excel.

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