Chris Dixon

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

I don't know.

I just sort of so I actually studied philosophy in school.

Um, and got into like kind of, you know, cognitive s like a little bit the intersection, maybe a little bit what we call today AI.

I did a little bit of AI, but more it was sort of pre AI, but more

Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, logic, and just I don't know.

I didn't really know what I was doing and I thought it was fun and didn't have a very sharp career idea.

Um, but then I and I was in New York and in New York, um

the you know, if you know how to program and you're in New York and it's expensive, you end up uh I ended up

doing various programming jobs.

Which eventually led me into for two years post school um finance at a hedge fund doing programming.

Just kinda to pay my my student loans and things.

And um but then then the internet really started taking off and I discovered that, um, and got into that and um

fast forward, you know, I was I was in New York and then in Boston for a while and um

Uh ended up in the early two thousands starting a

uh internet security company.

All right, you're you've you've you've jumped w way ahead before me.

So uh I I I don't know, I'm if folks I I'm happy to go into more detail.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So super people.

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