Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon is managing partner of a16z Frontier where he is focused on investing in companies building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop. He has been at Andreessen Horowitz since 2013 investing in frontier technologies including crypto, drones, VR, AI and more. Some of his investments include Coinbase, Oculus, Skydio, Kalshi, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Uniswap.

Previously, he was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011.

Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies including Stripe, Pinterest, Flatiron Health, Zipline.

He started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.

Chris is the author of Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (Random House, January 2024). Chris writes about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on cdixon.org and Substack.