Chris Dixon Age, Biography

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Marital Status: Unmarried

Age: 52 Years

Hometown: Springfield

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	Internet Entrepreneur
Known For	Being the Co-founder and former CEO of Hunch
Physical Stats & More
Eye Colour	Blue Hazel
Hair Colour	Golden Brown
Personal Life
Date of Birth	Year, 1972
Age (as of 2024)	52 Years
Birthplace	Springfield, Ohio
Nationality	American
Hometown	Springfield, Ohio
College/University	• Columbia University • Harvard University
Educational Qualification(s)	• BA from Columbia University • MBA from Harvard University
Food Habit	Non-Vegetarian
Social Media	• Instagram • Twitter • LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Favourites
Baseball Team	New York Yankees
Style Quotient
Car Collection	DMC DeLorean
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$400 million (as of 2023)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon began programming at 8, he started by programing on a TRS-80 Model 1. According to him, he learnt to code on his own. His parents are both English professors at the Wittenberg University. He attended various Computer Science camps.

After completing his graduation from Columbia University, he took up a job as a developer at a hedge fund in the Wall Street.

After working for the Hedge Fund for three years, he pursued his MBA from Havard University. Later, he began working for a venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners.

In 2005, he co-founded a web advisor startup named SiteAdvisor, which was later acquired by security company McAfee in 2006.

In 2009, he co-founded a recommendation engine named Hunch along with an American entrepreneur, Caterina Fake. In 2011, Hunch was acquired by eBay for $75 million.

While creating Hunch, he made personal investments in various technical startups including the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter (2009), the social sharing site Pinterest (2011), and the online payments business Stripe (2012).

Chris also worked on launching a seed-stage fund, Founder Collective, where he invested with many successful entrepreneurs turned angel investors, including Midas List investors David Frankel (No. 11) and Bill Trenchard (No. 86), and former Midas List investor Eric Paley.

In 2009, he started a blog where he wrote about startup advice, musings and thoughts on Big Tech. The blog became a huge hit and he gained fame because of that.

In May 2024, Chris Dixon raised $4.5 billion for his firm’s fourth crypto fund. He also relaunched an accelerator for crypto startups called Crypto Startup School.

In 2022, he was featured as number one on the Forbes Midas list of the most influential and best-performing venture capital investors; however, in 2023, he was featured as 25th number.

In 2024, he published a book titled Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet. On 19 February 2024, the book was featured at no. 9 on the New York Times Best Sellers List for Combined Print & E-Book Non-fiction.

Chris writes about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor for various magazines including The Mirror, Medium and cdixon.org.

He has appeared several times on the “web3 with a16z” podcast.
Chris Dixon in a still from the web3 with a16z podcast