How Chris Dixon’s dive down the crypto rabbit hole made him the world’s top venture capitalist: ForbesMidas
The Andreessen Horowitz partner is the new no. 1 on Forbes’ 21st annual Midas List of top venture investors, thanks to savvy bets on tokens, NFTs and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. In fact, a dozen members of this year’s Midas List count Coinbase as one of their banner investments, third most of any company. For the rest of the Midas top 100, bios, analysis and more, please visit2013, serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist Chris Dixon was searching for the next big thing.
Coinbase is just the crown jewel in a portfolio that has made 50-year-old Dixon the new No. 1 on our annual Midas List of tech’s top dealmakers. Other big Dixon deals : Uniswap, a decentralized crypto exchange , Avalanche, an open-source blockchain and NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs . “By any measure, he’s the top crypto investor,” says General Catalyst managing director Hemant Taneja, Midas List. No. 23, who backed Dixon’s first startup nineteen years ago. Dixon’s colleague and firm cofounder Ben Horowitz goes further:
The son of two Wittenberg University English professors, Dixon grew up in Ohio, where he taught himself to code, then instructed others at computer summer camps. Interest in cognitive science and logic drove Dixon to pursue bachelor and master’s degrees in philosophy at Columbia University in the early 1990s. Raised to question capitalist enterprises, Dixon defied his parents by soon taking a job as a developer at a hedge fund because it paid the best.
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