#542: Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs

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Chris Dixon (@cdixon) is a general partner
at Andreessen Horowitz, where for the past six years he has
been an active seed and venture-stage investor.


Previously, Chris co-founded and served as the CEO of two
startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet
security company that warned web users of security threats. The
company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a
recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in
2011.


Chris has been a prolific seed investor, co-founding Founder
Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal
angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started
programming as a kid and was a professional programmer after
college at the high-speed options trading firm Arbitrade. He has
a BA and MA in philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.


He has written about his theories and experiences as an
entrepreneur and investor on Medium and before that
at cdixon.org. His a16z Podcast appearances can be
found here.


Naval Ravikant (@naval) is the co-founder
and chairman of AngelList. He is an angel investor and has
invested in more than 100 companies, including many
mega-successes, such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, Opendoor,
Postmates, and Wish. You can subscribe to Naval, his podcast
on wealth and happiness, on Apple
Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you get your
podcasts. You can also find his blog at nav.al.


For more Naval-plus-Tim, check out my wildly popular
interview with him from 2015—which was nominated for “Podcast of
the Year”—at tim.blog/naval. We also had a second long-form
conversation in 2020, and you can find that here. His most
recent appearance was helping me interview Ethereum creator
Vitalik Buterin here.


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Past guests on The Tim Ferriss
Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh
Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin
Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew
McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth
Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah
Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine
Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary
Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael
Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria
Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de
Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly
Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard
Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael
Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan
Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit
Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim
Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval
Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth
Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard
Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid
Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick
Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, and many
more.


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