Chris Dixon Age, Biography
Quick Info→
Marital Status: Unmarried
Hometown: Springfield
Age: 52 Years
Bio/Wiki | |
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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, New York City • Harvard University, US |
Educational Qualification(s) | • BA from Columbia University • MBA from Harvard University |
Food Habit | Non-Vegetarian |
Social Media | • Instagram |
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
- Since childhood Chris Dixon was tech-savvy. He began programming at the age of 8 on a TRS-80 desktop microcomputer.
- 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. He worked there for almost three years.
- 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 David Frankel, Bill Trenchard, and Eric Paley.
- Chris has 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 2022, Chris Dixon raised $4.5 billion for his firm Andreessen Horowitz’s fourth crypto fund. He also relaunched a twelve-week accelerator program 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 has written about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor for various magazines including The Mirror and Medium, and also on his official website ‘cdixon.org.’
- He has appeared several times on the “web3 with a16z” podcast.