Read Write Own: A New Era

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Chris Dixon is the founder and managing partner of a16z crypto and author of the new book Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet. Robert Hackett is an editor at a16z crypto who worked closely with him on the book as an editing and thought partner. They discuss the writing process, the book's themes, and what could follow the internet's read-write-own era.

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0:00.0	People always
0:02.0	ask like what problems do blockchain solves.
0:04.0	I think I've been pretty good at predicting what happens on the internet.
0:07.0	I've been pretty bad at predicting exactly when it happens.
0:10.0	The prize when you're building an internet service is always the network.
0:15.0	I felt like the worldview that I have that sees a very positive vision for how
0:21.0	blockchains and tokens and these other technologies can be used
0:24.0	was not widely understood and not properly represented.
0:28.0	What ends up mattering is the products.
0:30.0	It's a worldview of the internet.
0:32.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the It's a worldview of the internet.
0:33.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the A16Z podcast.
0:36.0	This is your host, Stuff Smith.
0:38.0	And today we have a very special episode.
0:40.0	We will be hearing from Chris Dixon as he just released his new book, Read Right Own.
0:47.0	Chris has been a participant, a creator, a funder, a founder, all within the Internet era.
0:52.0	And in his book, he breaks on the cycles of crypto specifically and what's the why now
0:57.0	Plus he addresses the important distinction between the computer and the casino
1:01.4	All right. I won't hold you up any longer.
1:04.0	Hope you enjoy this very important episode, Chris Dixon and Robert Hackett, and don't forget to check
1:08.7	out Chris's book, Read Right Own, which is available now.
1:16.6	Welcome to Web3 with A6 and Z, our show about building the next generation of the internet
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