Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Ted Seides – Allocator and Asset Management Expert

Investing, Capitalallocation, Business

4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we’ll discuss another empty room – an opportunity ignored by most investors because they either don’t want to or can’t participate. We’ve shared conversations under this theme about a range of forgotten opportunities from specific emerging markets to biotech. Previous episodes are available under the mini-series or topic search at capitalallocators.com. This time around, we discuss a room that was overflowing two years ago, has been abandoned since, and might be coming back once again - crypto and blockchain technologies.

My guest is Chris Dixon, a general partner at a16z and one of the leading voices and investors in the space. Chris recently published a book entitled Read Write Own, which explains the history, thesis, features, and importance of blockchain technology in his classic framework-driven, non-technical style.

Our conversation covers aspects of the book, including the history of the internet, rationale for blockchains, and tokenomics. We then turn to what’s happened in the ignored space since the fall of FTX across stablecoins, NFTs, DeFi, Bitcoin ETFs, regulation, and the devotees still involved in the space.

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0:00.0	Capital Allocators is brought to you by Ten East, an investment platform for sophisticated investors to access private markets.
0:10.5	Ten East brings benefits of having your own family office without the cost and headaches of doing so.
0:16.8	It's founded and led by Michael LaFelle, former deputy executive managing member of Davidson Kempner.
0:24.2	Michael and his investment team offer members the opportunity to co-invest by offering at their
0:29.1	discretion. Michael and his team source, diligence, and commit material personal capital to each
0:35.3	investment. The opportunities shared on the Ten East platform
0:38.9	offer exposure to private credit, real estate, niche venture and private equity, and other
0:44.5	idiosyncratic investments that typically aren't available through traditional channels.
0:49.2	The principles have over a decade track record of investing in these types of exposures
0:53.5	across more than 350
0:55.7	transactions. Post-investment, the TENI's team conducts ongoing monitoring and reporting,
1:01.8	just as you'd expect from an institutional investment organization. I've known Michael for about a
1:07.0	decade, and after becoming impressed by the quality of 10 East offerings, its research
1:11.6	process, and high-quality investment team, I became an advisor to the organization, an investor
1:17.1	in multiple offerings. You can learn more and join me as a member at 10-east.com. That's the number 10,
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