The Music Industry Is a Golden Period for Creative People

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i think we're in a video game golden period. They're mostly free because they figured out this other way to monotize. Video games is a hundred, 50 billion dollar year business. 60 billion of that is virtual goods. The entire music industry, i believe, is like 20 billion. That money goes to fund those musicians and you could have more people pursuing their passions as they should. This should be a golden period for creative people. On inanet, you have, you push a button that six people, six billion people have access. And i guess i would just ask the udience to be open minded about whether that's an experiment worth running. We're going

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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