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Chris Dixon is an American entrepreneur and investor. He holds a BA and MA at Columbia in Philosophy and a MBA at Harvard. Chris was the Co-Founder of Hunch (acquired by Ebay), Funder Collective and SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee). He is currently an investor at Andreessen Horowitz and he has personally invested in “technology startups, including Hipmunk, Kickstarter, Stripe, Warby Parker, Pinterest, Canvas, Foursquare, Picturelife, Kitchensurfing, 42Floors, Codecademy, Stack Overflow, Dropbox, Gerson Lehrman Group, Bloomreach, Optimizely, Skype, TrialPay, Panjiva, Sift Science, Oyster, Behance (acquired by Adobe), OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga), Truaxis (acquired by Mastercard), DocVerse (acquired by Google), Invite Media (acquired by Google), ScanScout (IPO), and some other startups that haven’t publicized investments yet.”
He was one of the guys who led the $25 million investment in Coinbase, which we recently nominated as one of the best startup in 2013. As he recalls:
Coinbase has grown extremely fast and is now the most widely used Bitcoin service in the US. The founders of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, have worked closely with banks and regulators to ensure that the service is safe and compliant. We think Coinbase can significantly accelerate Bitcoin’s proliferation, and as that happens the Internet will enter a new phase of invention and opportunity.
Chris Dixon is one of those guys who have been in the market for a long time by founding several companies and investing in even more, that’s why we think you should listen and watch what he says and suggests. There are a few people in the entrepreneurship world who know what they are talking about and Chris is one of them.
