Tus khub Andreessen Horowitz yog tus tshiab no. 1 ntawm Forbes '21st txhua xyoo Midas Daim Ntawv Teev Npe ntawm cov neeg ua lag luam sab saum toj, ua tsaug rau kev paub txog bets ntawm tokens, NFTs thiab cryptocurrency pauv Coinbase. Qhov tseeb, ntau tus tswv cuab ntawm lub xyoo no Midas List suav Coinbase ua ib qho ntawm lawv cov kev nqis peev nyiaj txiag, thib peb feem ntau ntawm txhua lub tuam txhab. Rau qhov seem ntawm Midas saum 100, bios, tsom xam thiab ntau ntxiv, thov mus saib forbes.com/midas.
IN Xyoo 2013, tus neeg ua lag luam serial tig venture capitalist Chris Dixon tab tom nrhiav rau qhov loj tom ntej. Xyoo 1980s muaj cov khoos phis tawj ntiag tug, xyoo 1990s hauv Is Taws Nem thiab 2000s xov tooj ntawm tes. Ib tug tshiab minted khub ntawm VC ruaj Andreessen Horowitz, Dixon pib caum "moonshots" - virtual reality, 3D luam ntawv, drones.
Tab sis nws yog thawj thawj koom ruam thaum ntxov ntawm Coinbase, kev sib pauv cryptocurrency, uas tau txhais Dixon txoj haujlwm. Nws lub tuam txhab tau coj $ 25 lab nyiaj txiag puag ncig rau hauv Coinbase hauv 2013. Thaum lub sijhawm Coinbase tau mus rau pej xeem los ntawm cov npe ncaj qha rau lub Plaub Hlis 2021, Andreessen Horowitz tau ua haujlwm ze li ntawm 30 lab shares (15% ceg txheem ntseeg) hla 14 ntau puag ncig. Cov shares muaj nqis txog $ 10 nphom - zoo rau kwv yees li 60x rov qab - thaum kawg ntawm Coinbase thawj hnub ntawm kev ua lag luam. (Lub tuam txhab tau muag ib co shares, uas tam sim no pauv ntawm ib nrab ntawm tus nqi ntawd.)
Coinbase tsuas yog lub pob zeb diamond hauv cov ntaub ntawv uas tau ua rau 50-xyoo-laus Dixon tus tshiab No. 1 ntawm peb txhua xyoo Midas List of tech's top dealmakers. Lwm qhov loj Dixon deals : Uniswap, decentralized crypto pauv ($ 10 billion tag nrho diluted valuation, uas tso nyiaj rau cov nyiaj npib tseem tsis tau nyob rau hauv), Avalanche, qhib-qhov chaw blockchain ($ 62 billion) thiab NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs ($ 7.6 billion) .
Tam sim no faib lub sij hawm ntawm New York thiab California, Dixon yog ib tug ntawm crypto cov txwj laus statesmen - thiab cov hnab ris tob. Ua tsaug rau qhov ua tiav ntawm nws qhov pib crypto txiaj hauv a16z, raws li lub tuam txhab tau nrov npe (rau cov ntawv xov tooj ntawm "a" hauv Andreessen thiab "z" hauv Horowitz), Dixon thiab pab pawg ua tiav 2021 tau hloov $ 350 lab rau hauv paub thiab tsis paub txog qhov nce ntawm $ 6 nphom, qhov muag-popping 17.7x ntau yam, ib qhov chaw nrog kev paub txog cov nyiaj txiag hais tias.
Dixon thiab co. twb tawm hauv kev ua lag luam nce nyiaj tshiab, qhov chaw qhia Forbes, nyob rau hauv dab tsi yuav tshaj tawm ua crypto qhov loj tshaj plaws venture fund puas tau ntawm $4.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz tsis kam hais txog nws qhov kev ua tau zoo lossis nrhiav nyiaj txiag.
"Los ntawm txhua qhov kev ntsuas, nws yog tus neeg lag luam crypto saum toj kawg nkaus," hais tias General Catalyst tswj hwm tus thawj coj Hemant Taneja, Midas List. No. 23, leej twg txhawb nqa Dixon thawj zaug pib ua haujlwm kaum cuaj xyoo dhau los. Dixon tus npoj yaig thiab tus thawj coj ruaj khov Ben Horowitz (Midas No. 87) mus ntxiv: "Kuv xav tias 10 xyoo los ntawm tam sim no, txhua tus yuav suav nws yog tus neeg ua lag luam loj tshaj plaws ntawm nws tiam neeg."
Hais lus rau Forbes Hauv kev xam phaj tsawg, Dixon downplays nws tus kheej Midas kov. Nws hais tias "Kuv txoj haujlwm tsis yog los kwv yees yav tom ntej," nws hais. "Kuv txoj hauj lwm yog kom ntse txaus kom paub leej twg cov neeg ntse yog leej twg yuav."
Continental Catch-up
Tsib tus neeg tuaj tshiab los ntawm Tebchaws Europe, Ixayees thiab lwm qhov hauv Middle East thawj zaug ntawm daim ntawv teev npe Midas xyoo no, nqa tag nrho cov VCs sab saum toj los ntawm cov cheeb tsam ntawd mus rau cov ntaub ntawv 12, 50% ntau dua xyoo tas los. Lawv suav nrog London's Reshma Sohoni, yog ib tus ntawm 11 tus poj niam hauv qib. Lub Seedcamp cofounder thiab tus thawj tswj hwm tus khub yog tus txhawb nqa thaum ntxov ntawm Romanian-tsim robotic txheej txheem automation tuam txhab UiPath, uas tau mus rau pej xeem ntawm $ 28 billion tus nqi hauv lub Plaub Hlis 2021.
Tus tub ntawm ob tus kws qhia ntawv Askiv University Wittenberg, Dixon loj hlob hauv Ohio, qhov chaw nws tau qhia nws tus kheej rau kev cai, tom qab ntawd qhia lwm tus hauv computer lub caij ntuj sov camps. Kev txaus siab hauv kev paub txog kev paub thiab kev xav tau tsav Dixon mus kawm bachelor thiab master's degree hauv kev xav ntawm Columbia University thaum ntxov 1990s. Sawv los nug cov tuam txhab lag luam, Dixon tau tawm tsam nws niam nws txiv los ntawm kev ua haujlwm sai sai ntawm cov peev txheej nyiaj txiag vim tias nws tau them qhov zoo tshaj plaws. Kwv yees li peb xyoos tom qab, nws tau mus rau Harvard kom tau txais nws MBA, thiab ua haujlwm luv luv ntawm lub tuam txhab peev lag luam Bessemer Venture Partners ua ntej txiav tawm mus nrhiav nws tus kheej lub tuam txhab SiteAdvisor, uas ceeb toom txog kab mob thiab malware. Tsis pub dhau ib xyoos, kev ruaj ntseg loj heev McAfee tau txais kev lag luam, nyiaj tau los ua ntej.
Tom ntej no, Dixon cofounded lub cav pom zoo thaum ntxov hu ua Hunch. Zoo li SiteAdvisor, nws tau txais - lub sijhawm no los ntawm eBay - txog $ 75 lab hauv 2011. Hlawv tawm ntawm lub tsev thiab muag ob lub tuam txhab, Dixon muaj kev xaiv los ua: nyob twj ywm ib tus neeg ua lag luam, lean rau hauv kev ua haujlwm blogging thiab podcasting, lossis dhau los ua ib vc.
Thaum tsim Hunch, Dixon tau pib nqis peev ntawm tus kheej hauv lwm qhov kev pib ua haujlwm hauv New York qhov kev siv thev naus laus zis me me, qee qhov qiv nyiaj ntxiv ntawm Hunch lub chaw haujlwm. Dixon ntau tshaj 50 qhov kev nqis peev ntawm tus kheej suav nrog crowdfunding platform Kickstarter (2009), social sharing site Pinterest (2011), thiab kev them nyiaj online lag luam Stripe (2012). Nws kuj tau pab tsim ib lub noob-theem nyiaj, Founder Collective, qhov chaw uas nws tau nqis peev nrog ob peb lwm cov neeg ua lag luam uas muaj kev vam meej ua tub txib, suav nrog Midas List investor David Frankel (No 11) thiab Bill Trenchard (No. 86), thiab yav dhau los Midas. Sau npe ua lag luam Eric Paley.
Tab sis nyob rau hauv tech's mecca ntawm Silicon Valley, Dixon tseem yog feem ntau paub txog tus kheej blog nws tau tsim tawm hauv 2009, qhov uas nws tau qhia tawm tswv yim pib pib, tus kheej musings thiab kev xav ntawm Big Tech. Cov ntsiab lus tseem ceeb ntawm qhov chaw tseem ua haujlwm suav nrog a 2011 ceeb toom mus rau kev lag luam lom ze txog Apple TV thiab a xyoo caum-thaum ntxov Kev tiv thaiv ntawm non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Thaum Dixon pej xeem tipped New York's tech scene kom nws thiaj li tawm mus, kev nqis peev kom deb li deb ntawm California xav zoo li nyob rau sab nraud. Luckily rau Dixon, tus tsim ntawm venture peev lub suab nrov tshaj plaws yuav cuam tshuam, Marc Andreessen thiab Horowitz, yog cov neeg nyeem nyiam ntawm Dixon's blog thiab caw nws los koom nrog lawv sab hnub poob. "Qhov no yog qhov kuv tuaj yeem ua rau kuv lub cim," Dixon nco qab xav. "Kuv tuaj yeem mus nrhiav yam tom ntej, thiab nyob nruab nrab ntawm nws."
Frontier lossis "moonshot" kev nqis peev, raws li Dixon hu ua nws, coj nws mus nqis peev hauv Oculus, qhov kev muaj tiag virtual pib tau los ntawm Facebook, drone tuam txhab Skydio thiab crypto tuam txhab Ripple. Los ntawm kev nqis peev hauv Bitcoin mining startup 21.co, nrhiav tau los ntawm tus qub a16z tus khub Balaji Srinivasan, Dixon tau txais lwm qhov tawg ntawm kev txhawb nqa ib tus ntawm nws cov neeg nyeem, Coinbase cofounder thiab CEO Brian Armstrong, tom qab nws tau dhau los lawm. Peb tau tham txog plaub teev nyob rau xyoo 2013, Armstrong hais tias, thiab pom cov hauv paus ntsiab lus ntawm kev tswj hwm kev ua raws li cryptocurrencies. Dixon coj Coinbase's Series B thaum Lub Kaum Ob Hlis, koom nrog lub rooj sib tham uas suav nrog Midas List investor Garry Tan (No. 28) thiab Fred Wilson (No. 73).
Ob peb xyoos tom ntej no, Andreessen Horowitz yog tib lub tuam txhab los rov ua dua hauv txhua qhov kev pab nyiaj, suav nrog ib qho "down round" tsa ntawm tus nqi qis, Armstrong hais. Forbes hauv email. Dixon tau ua pov thawj pab tau txhua yam los ntawm kev ruaj ntseg cov tswv cuab thiab cov koom tes hauv tuam txhab nyiaj rau kev tawm tswv yim rau Coinbase ntxiv kev txhawb nqa rau kev lag luam ntawm Ethereum thiab lwm yam khoom tsis yog-Bitcoin. Armstrong hais tias "Kuv tuaj yeem ntseeg siab tias a16z yog Coinbase tus neeg ua lag luam muaj txiaj ntsig tshaj plaws," Armstrong hais. "Chris muaj lub peev xwm tshwj xeeb los pom ib puag ncig, tshwj xeeb tshaj yog thaum nws los txog rau thev naus laus zis thiab yuav tsim dab tsi ntxiv."
PAUB VALUE
Ib lub kaum os cov tub ua lag luam nyob rau xyoo no Midas List suav cryptocurrency pauv Coinbase ua ib qho ntawm lawv cov kev nqis peev banner, peb feem ntau ntawm txhua lub tuam txhab. Cov pab pawg muaj xws li cov kws tshaj lij theem pib Fred Wilson thiab Garry Tan mus rau cov kws paub txog kev loj hlob David George thiab Matthew Witheiler. Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon ua tus thawj coj tsis yog rau thaum ntxov tab sis rau nws txoj kev ntseeg hauv kev nqis peev hauv txhua qhov ntawm 15 tag nrho cov peev nyiaj.
Thaum Dixon tau cog lus rau crypto nqis peev puv sijhawm nrog a16z qhov kev tshwm sim thawj zaug hauv 2018, nws tau cog ib qho ntawm thawj tus chij loj hauv qhov chaw tawm tshiab. Tam sim no, Dixon thiab co. ntsib kev sib tw hnyav ntxiv, ob qho tib si los ntawm cov tuam txhab VC generalist faib ntau cov peev txheej rau crypto nqis peev, nrog rau los ntawm cov neeg sib tw tshwj xeeb xws li Paradigm, cofounded los ntawm Coinbase lwm tus tsim Fred Ehrsam.
Tab sis Dixon txoj kev mob siab rau txoj moo zoo ntawm crypto, thiab kev txaus siab los lo rau nws thaum lub sij hawm poob, tseem nqa qhov hnyav tshwj xeeb. Ntawm Uniswap, qhov nrov decentralized pauv Dixon txhawb nqa thaum lub sij hawm Series A (ib puag ncig tom qab Paradigm), CEO Hayden Adams hais tias Dixon lub peev xwm los txuas rau lub ntiaj teb ntawm kev siv thev naus laus zis thiab nyiaj txiag nrog crypto ua pov thawj tseem ceeb hauv kev ntiav COO deb ntawm Black Rock thiab snagging. tus lwm thawj ntawm engineering deb ntawm Snap.
Roham Gharegozlou, CEO ntawm Dapper Labs, muab qhab nia Dixon nrog kwv yees qhov nce ntawm NFTs. Nws lub tuam txhab tsim ib qho ntawm thawj cov khoom siv digital ntawm Ethereum blockchain, CryptoKitties, thaum lub sijhawm Dixon snagged Kitty No. 15. "Chris pom tag nrho cov kev lag luam ua ntej nws pib," Gharegozlou hais.
Cov ntaub ntawv pov thawj zoo li no tsis muaj nuj nqis nyob rau hauv kev lag luam uas muaj txiaj ntsig rau kev saws me nyuam ntxov thiab kev txiav txim siab muaj zog tshaj lwm yam. Lawv kuj txhais tau tias Dixon, yog tias nws xav tau, tuaj yeem tawm tsam ntawm nws tus kheej thiab yooj yim nce billions rau lub tuam txhab hauv nws lub npe. (Tus khub qub Katie Haun tsis ntev los no tau tawm ntawm lub tuam txhab los ua qhov ntawd nrog Haun Ventures, raising ib tug $1.5 billion solo general partner fund.) Txog tam sim no, Dixon, nws cov npoj yaig thiab cov phooj ywg txhua tus hais tias nws tsis muaj kev txaus siab rau dai nws tus kheej shingle.
Dixon hais tias "Kuv tsuas yog tsis mob siab rau lub npe ntawm lub qhov rooj," Dixon hais. "Qhov no yog rau kuv muaj peev xwm lub sijhawm golden [ntawm crypto] rau peb lub xyoos tom ntej. Yog li kuv tsis xav siv ob xyoos tom ntej no ua txhua qhov teeb tsa, thiab nrhiav ib pab neeg, thiab lwm yam zoo li ntawd. "
Hloov chaw, ntau qhov chaw qhia Forbes, Dixon thiab a16z tau qhia cov tub ua lag luam tias lawv npaj yuav thaum kawg quav a16z crypto rov qab rau hauv lub tuam txhab cov nyiaj hauv nruab nrab. Qhov kev txav mus los yuav yog qhov tseem ceeb, xav txog kev yuav khoom dav dua rau hauv Web3 thoob plaws lub tuam txhab, cov peev txheej hais tias, nrog crypto txiaj heev (thiab ubiquitous) kom nyob twj ywm nrog ib qho nyiaj. Tus cev lus Andreessen Horowitz tsis kam hais tawm.
Crypto txoj kev dav dav mus rau hauv cov ntsiab lus tseem ceeb yog qee yam Dixon tab tom cuam tshuam nrog nws tus kheej. Lub Cuaj Hli dhau los, ib txoj xov Dixon luam tawm hauv Twitter nthuav dav "vim li cas Web3 tseem ceeb" mus kis. Thaum Lub Kaum Ob Hlis, nws qhov kev tawm tsam rau Web3 cov lus cog tseg ntawm kev faib tawm hauv internet nrog ntau tus neeg siv ncaj qha cov tswv cuab, uas nws tau hais tias tam sim no tsis muaj "Web2" cov tuam txhab internet xws li Facebook lossis Twitter, muab nws tso rau hauv qhov pom ntawm Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, tsis yog nws. CEO tab sis tus tswv ntawm nws trolling hom. "Koj yog cov nyiaj tau txiav txim siab los ua lub tebchaws tshaj tawm uas tsis tuaj yeem tsis quav ntsej ... tsis yog Gandhi," Dorsey tweeted, sib cav tias Web3 tseem yuav muaj, tab sis lub sijhawm no los ntawm VCs.
Kev sib tsoo xaus nrog Andreessen thaiv nws tus khub billionaire ntawm Twitter; Dixon tsis tau, tab sis thaiv lwm leej lwm tus. Dixon hais tias tam sim no nws "tej zaum dhau los," hais txog qhov nrov Twitter meme tias kev ua si ntawm Twitter tsis yog nws tus cwj pwm tseem ceeb rau hnub, thiab qhov piv txwv ntawd, nws poob. Dixon siv qhov kev tawm tsam ntawm tus kheej, cov npoj yaig hais tias, sawv cev ntawm cov neeg ua lag luam yam tsis muaj lub zog los sawv cev rau cov neeg hauv online. "Kuv xav tias nws tuaj yeem tawm tsam me ntsis lossis qee zaum curmudgeon, tab sis nws yeej los ntawm qhov chaw zoo tshaj plaws," hais tias a16z crypto tus khub Arianna Simpson.
Dixon tam sim no muab kev ntsuas ntau dua rau Dorsey thiab lwm tus thawj coj thev naus laus zis uas nug txog qhov muaj peev xwm faib tawm ntawm Web3. Dixon hais tias "Kuv cov lus teb yuav yog, 'hav, zoo, tuaj koom nrog peb thiab pab peb daws cov teeb meem no," Dixon hais. "Raws li kev cuam tshuam ntawm kev cuam tshuam cov grenades los ntawm sab nraud, uas yog qhov kuv xav tias tshwm sim."
Nws yog ib qho nyuaj rau cov neeg ua lag luam nyob hauv ntiaj teb no los quaj underdog, tab sis Dixon hais tias thaum tib neeg thov crypto yog "tsuas yog tech bros tau txais kev twv txiaj nplua nuj," qeb thiab nws cov peev xwm yog to taub yuam kev. Nyob deb ntawm kev tawm tsam los ntawm pej xeem sib tham, Dixon npaj yuav siv sijhawm ntau xyoo no hauv Los Angeles, ntsib nrog kev lom zem kev lag luam tastemakers thiab tus tsim, tshaj tawm Web3 lub peev xwm rau kev ua tswv cuab ncaj qha rau cov ntsiab lus, nws hais tias, tom qab ntawd coj cov kws ntaus nkauj thiab lwm tus mus rau Washington, DC. , los pab yeej tshaj cov neeg tsim cai.
Qhov kev lees paub dav dav ntawm crypto yuav, tau kawg, tsuas yog txhawb nqa tus nqi ntawm Dixon cov peev txheej loj heev. Tab sis nws hais kom tsuas yog tsav tsheb Midas-caliber rov qab tsis yog lub hom phiaj nkaus xwb. Dixon hais tias "Peb yog ib lub tuam txhab ua lag luam, kuv tsis sim ua txuj zoo li peb tsis yog," Dixon hais. "Tab sis kuv xav hais tias kuv mob siab rau vim kuv xav tias [Web3] yog lub zog tseem ceeb, thiab kuv xav kom muaj kev cuam tshuam rau nws. Kuv ntseeg nws heev. "
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