Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon (born 1972) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and previously worked at eBay. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Hunch, a website.[1]

Early life and education

Dixon earned a BA and an MA from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.[2]

Career

Business

In the late 1990s, Dixon spent three years as a software programmer at Arbitrade, a hedge fund focused on high-frequency trading.[3] He then joined the venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners.[4]

In 2005, Dixon co-founded SiteAdvisor, a web-security startup that was bought by security company McAfee in 2006.[5] In 2009, he founded Hunch with Caterina Fake and Tom Pinckney, which was acquired by eBay in 2011.[6] He also co-founded Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital fund and became an investor in BuzzFeed, Makerbot, Betaworks, Uber, Venmo, Milo, and Hotel Tonight.[3]

Andreessen Horowitz

Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.[7] Since joining the firm in January 2013, Dixon has led a variety of investments for the firm including FiftyThree[8] Soylent,[9] and Nootrobox[10] and he sits on the boards of drone startup Airware,[11] 3D printing startup Shapeways,[12] and digital Bitcoin wallet Coinbase.[13]

Dixon also led the firm’s investment and sits on the board of Oculus VR,[14] which was acquired by Facebook in March 2014.[15]

Accolades

In 2010, Bloomberg L.P. named Dixon the top angel investor in the technology industry.[16]

Dixon won the 2012 Crunchie "Angel of the Year" award.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Andreessen Horowitz Hires Chris Dixon Away From EBay". The New York Times. November 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Super-Seed Funds-- Back to the Future". Harvard Business School Club of New York. November 2012.
  3. 1 2 "About Me". cdixon.org. August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Chris Dixon". Andreessen Horowitz blog. November 2012.
  5. ↑ "McAfee buys SiteAdvisor". Computer World. April 2006.
  6. ↑ "eBay snaps up recommendations service Hunch". VentureBeat. November 2011.
  7. ↑ "Chris Dixon Leaves eBay, Joins Andreessen Horowitz As Partner". Forbes. November 2012.
  8. ↑ "FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others". TechCrunch. June 2013.
  9. ↑ "Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz". TechCrunch. October 2013.
  10. ↑ "Andreessen Horowitz to Invest in Nootropics Start-Up", The New York Times, December 3, 2015
  11. ↑ "Airware Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz To Build Brains For Unmanned Drones". TechCrunch. May 2013.
  12. ↑ "Chris Dixon and Andreessen Horowitz invest $30M in 3D printing marketplace Shapeways". VentureBeat. April 2013.
  13. ↑ "Bitcoin's Biggest Bet: Andreessen Horowitz Leads $25 Million Investment in Coinbase". AllThingsD. December 2013.
  14. ↑ "Oculus raises $75 million to jump-start the virtual reality business". TheVerge. December 2013.
  15. ↑ "Oculus". cdixon.org. March 2014.
  16. ↑ "The Top Angel Investors: Behind the Rankings". Bloomberg L.P. February 25, 2010. (subscription required)
  17. ↑ Rao, Leena. "Chris Dixon Wins Crunchies 2012 "Angel Of The Year;" Peter Thiel Is Named "VC Of The Year"". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
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