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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Amelia.

Today's episode is all about the past, present, and future of the web,

featuring a conversation between two people who have played key roles in shaping how

the internet has developed to date.

A16Z general partner, Chris Chris Dixon is interviewed by the founder

and CEO of BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti. The conversation originally took place at our most recent

annual innovation conference, the A16C summit, and it was also previously released on YouTube,

if you'd like to check it out there as well. Hello, good to see you all.

So I am very excited to have a conversation with Chris today.

I first met Chris back in the New York tech scene.

Chris, at the time, was running this company called Hunt.

And it was a company that was really sparking a lot of thinking

among all of the New York tech entrepreneurs.

I feel like Chris was very much in the scene in New York.

And hunch was a company that opened people's eyes to new possibilities

and a kind of shift in the web. Could you maybe give

a little overview of what the internet was like back then and then what hunch was doing?

Yeah, so I mean the way I think about the web and I think the title of this talk is

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