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General Partner @a16z investing in web3. founder @ Autonomous Partners. into crypto before it was cool.
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Unpopular opinion: remote work is mostly bullshit. Way more gets done when you’re all in the same office.
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When you get senior enough, most jobs eventually converge to reading, writing, and speaking. Worth investing early on in learning how to do those three things well.
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I've recently noticed all of my good ideas come from the following, in ranked order:
1. Reading books
2. Conversations with a handful of A+ people
3. Twitter (yes, really)
4. Long runs
2019 plan is simple: spend more time doing the above, and less time doing everything else.
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Today we are announcing a16z crypto Fund 4. We’ve raised $4.5B to invest in promising web3 founders and startups, bringing our total crypto funds raised to more than $7.6B. 💪
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One of the biggest traps for both investors & founders in crypto these days is the endless stream of conferences. It's easy to go from one to the next feeling like you're doing work,& not actually accomplishing anything. Most of the meaningful work is done at home, unglamorously.
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If your LinkedIn bio includes the title “visionary” there is a 0% chance I want to connect.
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1/ I have some news! I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be joining the
@a16z
crypto team as a deal partner as of March.
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Enough psychedelics have not been involved in the design of most metaverses I’ve seen to date.
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I always find it annoying when someone I never talk to sends a message “hi, how are you?”. There’s a 100% chance they want something and a 0% chance they actually care how I am. Spit it out, I’ll help you if I can! But please cut to the chase.
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The further along you get in your career, the less you’re paid to actually do things, and the more you’re paid to make great decisions.
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If you wanted to be accurate, you would say this was Visa’s fault. Less accurately, you would blame Coinbase. But blaming bitcoin makes literally NO sense
Bitcoin’s latest glitch: Double charges at fast-growing Coinbase
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Today, I could not be more thrilled to announce that
@a16z
crypto is leading a $152M round in
@SkyMavisHQ
, maker of
@AxieInfinity
.I’ll also be joining the board. This team set off an earthquake this year, and the industry is forever changed:
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My favorite kind of books are non-fiction that read like fiction. What are your top recs that fit that category?
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A lot of success in crypto investing comes down to being ok doing nothing for long periods of time.
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LOL bitcoin up 18% in 24 hours with no obvious catalyst. Will never be able to work in any other industry... way too boring. 😂
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I’m not sure why folks are so concerned what Warren Buffet says about crypto. He and Charlie Munger have openly admitted being terrible tech investors for a very long time... (cont)
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Like any good millennial, I have historically been allergic to phone calls. But I recently discovered that sometimes, you just … call someone, and they pick up, and… the thing that would have taken a week of back and forth to schedule for is resolved in five minutes?! 🤯
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When web2 CEOs have horrible, public bad faith takes on web3, I really delight in helping their employees leave to join the amazing companies in our portfolio 😇 If this is you, ping me!
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When I talk to people who were planning to invest in crypto and now aren’t purely because the market is down... 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
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I wonder how long you have to be in crypto before your heart stops skipping a beat every time you hit "send transaction". I've been at it for five years and still have palpitations every time 😂
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We are hiring a meme lord. Is that you? 😉
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The magic of an airdrop, in which you are rewarded financially for making use of the products and services you already love, cannot be overstated. ✨
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Amazing how people outside the space seem to think crypto is dead. Dev activity is booming. It is 100% a full time job just trying to keep up with everything! Need more hours in the day...
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The thing is, crypto is going to happen with or without the US. So the current question is whether the US gets left behind - not whether crypto goes away.
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The Fidelity news is huge. Don’t you see what is happening?! What an extraordinary moment in time.
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I was just at business lunch where a woman apologized for having her baby with her.
Women make babies. They also run funds and companies. Sometimes simultaneously.
I hope in a couple years that's no longer the sort of thing any women feel the need to apologize for!
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I’m tired of the “I’m so busy” narrative. We need to stop giving out metaphorical busy gold stars. Having a full schedule doesn’t mean you’re accomplishing more; the best work often happens during unstructured time.
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I still think “money” is the most underrated blockchain application.
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Today, we are thrilled to announce we’ve led a round in
@YieldGuild
. YGG is at the center of the play to earn movement and building an incredibly powerful community. Why are we excited? More below 👇🏼 🧵
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Emotional stability is perhaps the biggest and most underrated edge in investing.
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I will never understand why people make public price predictions for crypto (esp short term). It’s the easiest way for otherwise very smart people to look dumb. Let’s be honest — nobody knows!
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The fact that miners are shutting down and difficulty is decreasing is a feature, not a bug, of bitcoin’s design.
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You misspelled "database"
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Some news! I'm thrilled to be taking on a new role as GP in the a16z crypto fund. So, so grateful to my entire team for this, but most of all to Katie for bringing me into the
@a16z
fold last year. Can't wait to keep backing amazing entrepreneurs in crypto 🚀🚀🚀
1/ Today I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that we are promoting
@AriannaSimpson
as our newest General Partner in the a16z crypto fund!
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One of my favorite things about crypto is that it forces you to go back and learn how a lot of things *really* work from other realms. Literally everything from inflation to DNS to liquidity pools. Often these are things that you thought you understood, but really had gaps.
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The degree of fury that web3 triggers from a lot of people is pretty much the surest indication one could hope for that it’s important.
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To everyone who’s new to crypto and has never seen the numbers go down before: welcome! This is how you earn your stripes. Keep building!
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If you are throwing away your thesis based on what the market has done in the past couple of weeks, did you ever really believe in it to begin with?
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I wonder whether it would be possible to change incentive structures such that books were no longer 70% fluff. It would be great if (non-fiction) writers got paid in accordance with how succinctly they could convey the message. I would happily pay more for less.
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Having an extremely hard time not becoming livid at friends who are not practicing social distancing. Even if you are fine, YOU CAN KILL PEOPLE. How irresponsible and selfish must you be not to grasp this concept?!
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Thanks
@emilychangtv
for having me on
@technology
to talk about
@AxieInfinity
and the play to earn revolution! 🚀🔥
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I am a fan of people who use regular words to say what they mean. If we want to make crypto more inclusive, we shouldn't make newcomers feel stupid. So maybe let's cool it with the "Schelling point", "path dependence" bla bla bla?
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I generally feel like I look fine on Zoom. Then I open Google Meet and feel an overwhelming need to schedule a full face transplant, stat
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Let’s not forget that volatility is not unique to crypto. Amazon lost 95% of its market cap from December 1999 to October 2001.
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If I’ve learned one thing in crypto over the years, it’s never sell 100% of the airdrop 😉
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An interesting discovery I made later on in life is that often the quietest people have the most interesting things to say.
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Why do most airports not have gyms?? I would pay what could only be considered a stupid amount of money for this
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1/ It's become very in vogue to assert that there are good chances that bitcoin "may fail".This is basically a hedge statement that most investors feel compelled to make. It's also meaningless, because you can easily use it, sound thoughtful, & not actually convey a real opinion.
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Being able to tell someone that my eth address is ariannasimpson.eth or metaversequeen.eth is about 1 million times better UX than saying it's something like 0x38484.... I'm surprised everyone hasn't switched over yet.
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Land in SF and ubered into the city. First conversation I hear is a girl explaining to her friend how she’s a “pesca-vegan”. Grounds for turning car around and catching first flight back to NY?? 🤔
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The first chapter in “Zero to IPO”, by Frederic Kerrest cofounder and COO of
@okta
in which he credits
@bhorowitz
for giving him advice that saved the company and completely reset their trajectory after they’d missed their sales target by 70%
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What's the best work hack you've devised? I'll start; one of my favorites is (at least) one day a week with no meetings.
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There are plenty of good reasons to be skeptical of bitcoin. Literally zero of them involve tulips. Please please please come up with better bear arguments so we can at least have a constructive conversation!
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I find it astonishing that after a literal decade, the most common criticism of crypto is that it’s a ponzi scheme. Aside from the fact that this is demonstrably false, is no one tired of the same, ridiculous narrative? Yawn. 🥱
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I keep getting asked by young folks who want to break into crypto VC how to do it. The simplest answer: write in public! Tweet, too. It’s free, available to anyone, and the easiest way to stand out without needing any insider connections.
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I have an infinite appetite for financial history books. In case anyone is looking for holiday recommendations, here’s a list of some I’ve enjoyed in the last couple of months:
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If you don't feel like an idiot at least a couple times a day, the work you're doing isn't hard enough.
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Now, I’m not saying it’s the reason I am in NY, but I will say it doesn’t hurt there are more attractive people in a single NYC Starbucks on Monday morning than there are in all of San Francisco 😂
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I am by nature fairly skeptical and anti-hype.
But I am certain this period will be looked back on as an “obvious” one for crypto - when the inevitability of it became truly obvious - and yet so many investors remain on the sidelines.
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So if someone were hypothetically throwing a very sick party for a crypto crew, which DJ would be your
#1
pick, hypothetically? 😉
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The rarest thing in investing isn't money, it's conviction.
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My favorite thing about crypto is that despite often being in a financial position to retire, the makers keep making and the builders keep building. They’re not in it for the money.
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Just spoke at an event and had one of the folks in the audience come up after and say, “that made me want to quit my job (@ BlackRock) and come work in crypto!”
#missionaccomplished
😉
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I was positive on Libra as an on-ramp for crypto. I hadn’t fully considered that it would push bitcoin into the arms of regulators as the “better” option. Never thought I’d see the day... or rather I did, but not this soon 🤯
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Sometimes, right when you feel like you need to work 100x harder, what you actually need is a break.
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1/ Coinbase adds automatic staking for XTZ, and less than a month later, Binance introduces 0% staking fees on Tezos.
Stake wars are just getting started, and things are already starting to feel a liiittle uncomfortable.
A thread on centralization in Proof of Stake (PoS):
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Yes, dApps are hard to use today.
You also used to have to type an entire computer game by hand out of the back of a gaming magazine in order to use it.
These things get easier with time.
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went on a date. turns out the guy is a big bitcoin bear. needless to say it wasn't a terribly long date 🤦
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If you liked something as an investment at an expensive price, you should like it MORE at a lower price, not the other way around.
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Everyone should include their time zone in their email signature.
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Some personal news!
Starting today, I am going to be spending at least the next several months in NY (though I will still be in SF and on a ✈️ a lot). I’m looking forward to meeting more of the NY crypto ecosystem. Say hi and invite me to things, please! 😊
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It is pretty wild how much more I sleep now than pre pandemic. I’m also fairly sure that I am now sleeping the correct amount, and previously I was chronically under slept. Importantly, I think my brain works better now. I suspect I am not the only one to whom this applies.
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No, I don't think Libra is a threat to bitcoin.
What it means for things like Ripple and Stellar, however, is a different story 🙃
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2021 was the best year of my life, mainly because everything I’d been working toward without much in the way of concrete results in both my personal and professional life finally materialized this year. Trust the process and keep going. Happy 2022, all! 🥳
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Founders: To get the most out of your investors, it’s a good idea to have a shoutout section in your investor updates. We’re competitive nerds and will definitely go the extra mile to consistently make it on the list 😉
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Huge day for
@SkyMavisHQ
today!
@Ronin_Network
is live 🥳. A few thoughts about why I’m excited about it, and why I think it has a shot at being the Steam of web3 gaming: 👇🏼
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I’ve been nothing but impressed by the resolve of the
@SkyMavisHQ
team and the strength of the
@AxieInfinity
community in this past week. More optimistic than ever on the future of this ecosystem 💪🏼🔥🚀
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I cannot stop thinking about how lucky we are to live in the Age Of Information. Having access to effectively unlimited free content from the foremost world experts, in both written & oral form, on basically any subject is the greatest gift I can imagine.
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I find it amusing that people are so up in arms about Coinbase listing more assets.
1. what did you expect, they're an exchange
2. it's odd to be in favor of an open financial system, as most crypto people claim, and then basically want parental consent to screen what you buy
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The rise of cryptocurrency is going to be the greatest wealth-creation event of our generation.
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I am a big fan of as an alternative to Coinmarketcap. I especially like their "scam" and "possible scam" markers.
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I can't wait until I can just give my browser a monthly budget to spend on paywalls. I don't mind paying for content, but the friction of getting out my credit card every time is too high. Perfect crypto use case (esp. if we can get txn fees down).
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The more new chains launch with massive issues (including some with huge budgets) the more impressive it is that bitcoin has never had any similar catastrophes, over a much longer period.
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Running a fund or company in crypto is like living in a weird version of schrodinger's high school.
In the bear market you're the kid reading books alone in the library during lunch, and in the bull, you're suddenly captain of the football team.
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When people tell you you’re crazy for doing something hard (starting a business, running a marathon, etc) there’s at least a 75% chance they’re just jealous you have the guts to do it. Do it anyways!
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There’s a certain power that comes from being underestimated.
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I wonder how much longer it’ll be until “DeFi” just becomes “Fi”.
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It's incredible how much you change your own emotional state by breathing. This was probably the greatest discovery I made during my 20s.
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While the outcome of the
@ConstitutionDAO
was not what we wanted, it’s historic nonetheless—and the cat is out of the bag. The power of community has been unlocked, and I can’t wait to see what the next DAOs can accomplish!
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I'm suddenly so popular with all of the same people who told me I was crazy to go all in on BTC in 2012 🙄🤣
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Pleased to announce I will not be publishing a cringe thread of 2022 vc predictions.
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If this isn’t the case for web3, I don’t know what is…
Thea-Mai Baumann's Instagram handle was
@metaverse
. “You are now a millionaire,” one person messaged her when Facebook announced it was changing its name. "Fb isn’t gonna buy it, they’re gonna take it,” said another.
And that's exactly what happened.
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Alright, the cat is out of the bag! Thanks
@WSJVC
for covering my new fund, Autonomous Partners. Very excited to be able to back some of the sharpest teams in crypto(including
@kadena_io
&
@celoHQ
) & honored to work with a number of the best LPs in the game.
Crypto fund Autonomous Partners, led by
@AriannaSimpson
, counts Union Square Ventures, Craft Ventures and Cohen Private Ventures, Steve Cohen’s family office, as LPs. More on the fund
@WSJVC
:
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big ngmi vibes over here
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Decided I’ve been self censoring too much so it’s about to get a little spicier on my feed. I’ll be tweeting more like I sound IRL. You’ll probably either love it or hate it but it’s happening regardless🔥🌶️
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