Money Talks: Felix Wins His Crypto Bet
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Five years ago, tech investor Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz bet our own Felix Salmon a 100-year-old bottle of wine that 10% of Americans would be using Bitcoin to pay for something by now. Ben lost, of course, but he’s ready to double down with a new digital wager! He and partner Chris Dixon discuss the past and present of crypto, blockchain, and AI.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Money Talks from Slate Money. |
| 0:16.0 | This is a very, very special episode of Money Talks because I only do this once every five years. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios, and I have had various affiliations |
| 0:27.2 | over the years, but the one thing that is a constant |
| 0:29.6 | since the beginning of the age of Bitcoin |
| 0:32.0 | is that every five years I get into a bet with |
| 0:34.0 | Ben Horowitz. Ben Horowitz welcome. Thank you Felix it's good to be back after five |
| 0:39.0 | years. Ben you are well tell me who are you, introduce yourself? |
| 0:43.4 | I am one of the founding partners of Andresen Horowitz |
| 0:47.5 | who are, I think we have the largest crypto fund in the world, is that right, Chris? |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah, this other gentleman who's just jumped in here. this crypto fund in the world is that right? Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | This other gentleman who's just jumped in here is Chris Dixon. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi Felix, how are you? |
| 0:58.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:59.0 | Chris, what's your role in the cryptoverse? |
| 1:01.0 | And plug your book? |
| 1:02.0 | So I'm Ben's partner. |
| 1:03.4 | I've worked with Ben for about 10 years and I created our separate |
| 1:07.0 | crypto fund that we started about five years ago and I just published a book. |
| 1:10.3 | Thank you for mentioning that. |
| 1:11.3 | It's called Read Right Own. It's about |
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