I think the fortunate thing, in my mind, is that securities laws and ond of the ethos of web three happen to a line in that they both want highly decentralized networks. My personal preference, which sometimes iyo know able to get, sometimes we aren't, is everybody's a hundred % alined by owning tokens. And i think ultimately, many of these projects should not even have companies. They shold just be like the way lennoxes or lenox has a foundation, but ultimatey es, just like i go secondas there's one guy is really important.
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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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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