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]

For others of a similar name, see Chris Dixon (American football) and Chris Dickson (disambiguation).

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. His early college days were at Wesleyan University before he transferred.[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]

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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. Archived from the original on 2014-08-06. Retrieved 2014-08-04.
  3. "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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