Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What happens when two of the biggest tech waves—AI and crypto—start to converge? In this LP Summit conversation, a16z General Partners Chris Dixon and David George explore how stablecoins are creating a new global financial layer, why generative AI is reshaping market structures, and how the next tech giants will be built. From network effects to native AI business models, this is a sharp look at the future of innovation and investing.

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0:00.0	How will the money flow? How will copyright work? There's all sorts of interesting questions that you can kind of think of downstream. I think those are all questions that in some ways crypto can address.
0:09.5	They have the leading state-of-the-art models of Jim and I across a bunch of different domains.
0:14.1	So what should they do? They should throw out search? What is it, $100-something billion in revenue?
0:17.7	Yeah, it's the best business out there, and I do not envy them.
0:22.6	There's all these people talking about P. Doom and Terminator stuff, and then they're talking
0:26.5	about models. They sort of either really tactical or really like cosmological scale or something.
0:32.0	My sense is a lot of the actual interesting questions are sort of in the middle.
0:36.1	Today's episode was recorded live
0:37.9	at A16Z's
0:39.0	2025 LP Summit.
0:41.4	General partners
0:41.9	Chris Dixon
0:42.6	and David George,
0:44.2	two leaders at the forefront
0:45.2	of crypto, AI,
0:46.6	in growth stage investing
0:47.8	discussed the real state of crypto,
0:50.1	the rise of AI native apps,
0:52.1	and how platform shifts
0:53.3	are reshaping where value is created.
0:55.9	We also explore what defines a winning company and founder in this era of exponential acceleration.
1:02.6	Let's get into it.
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