Money, power, politics, and the internet's next battleground

web3 with a16z crypto

Andreessen Horowitz

Gaming, Blockchain, Web 3, Blockchains, Open Source, Business, Decentralization, Visual Arts, Computer Science, Ownership, Art, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Cypherpunk, Web 3.0, Music, Internet, Cryptography, Crypto, Computing, Web3, Innovation, Distributed Computing, Culture, Public Goods, Creator Economy, Arts, Technology

4.4 • 66 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Chris Dixon is the author of the bestselling book Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet, and he is the founder and managing partner of a16z crypto. Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen are the cofounders of Andreessen Horowitz. They discuss the corporate takeover of the internet, the intersections of crypto and AI, the political ramifications of blockchains and other technologies, and much more

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0:00.0	Welcome to Web3 with A16Z, a show about building the next generation of the internet from the team at A16Z crypto.
0:09.0	That includes me, your co-host, Robert Hackett.
0:12.0	Today's episode is the final installment in a limited series on
0:15.5	read-write-owned, the new book by A16Z crypto founding partner, Chris Dixon. Today's episode features
0:21.2	Dixon in conversation with A16Z co-founders, Ben Harowitz and Mark Andresen.
0:26.7	Their discussion covers the Internet's corporate takeover and how startups and creativity and innovation
0:32.0	are affected,
0:33.0	blockchains as inheritors of the open source ethos,
0:36.3	where AI comes in, and the next battleground in global politics.
0:40.7	This episode is a crossover from the Ben and Mark show, which you can find and follow on the A16Z YouTube channel or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:49.0	I deeply believe that most innovation comes from the edges.
0:52.8	It's not just about sort of, you know,
0:55.1	fighting over how a technology is built, right?
0:57.6	It's fundamentally like, do we have an internet that creates incentives
1:00.7	for entrepreneurs, for creative people.
1:03.2	What is the society we want?
1:04.5	What are the incentives we want?
1:05.9	Do we want human creativity to still flourish?
1:08.4	I think of it is very analogous to the arguments for open source software.
1:11.3	The policy should be things that encourage
1:13.3	entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation at the edges, not five big companies that
1:17.8	control everything. What kind of internet do we want? The content here is for informational purposes only should not be taken as legal, business,
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