Venture Capital - The Origin of the Venture Capital Industry

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It's a few billion dollars in funds for cup to start up. How much is it? Exactly the last oms. Two point two billion for that five, 53 50. So i think that's round three billion. Where does that money come from? Yes, we go raise money, as our companies do. R l ps ar everything from university endowments to foundations, o to non profits. There's the side that gives out money and the side that invests money.

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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