Web Three - What Is It?

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Andreson horwitz: I think your definition is one of the most important definitions to get. The way i think about the history of the webb is in three years, the first what we call web one was roughly 19 92, thousand five. Then you had webb too come along. And so instead of just sort of reading the new york times, you could now create a websight like facebook or blogger or twitter or tumbler. Minso that was bginning of social network. It also brought these, you know, really powerful services to billions of people.

Chris Dixon leads crypto investing at the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z. He’s responsible for leading funding rounds for Coinbase, which went public about a year ago, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Yuga Labs, which is behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club among others. He is also a prolific user of Twitter, where he posts lengthy threads about crypto and web3. He is at once one of the biggest investors in the space, and its biggest booster.

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