Cryptocurrency Investing - Is That a Conflict for You?

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You lead crypto investing at a firm called andreson horwitz. Mark andreson is on the board of meta. Is that a conflict for you? We have, the firm has no connection to metta beyond his personal envolven it's named after his name's on the door. Its is not like us. O o tell that mike bloomberg doesn't run bloomberg, but his name on the doors. I'm just telling you, we have no, i have no connection to them, and i have no love lost between our team and that company. And we re going t do everything we can to replace them with a new set of companies.

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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