Money, power, politics, and the internet's next battleground

Chris DixonBen HorowitzMarc AndreessenRobert Hackett

Welcome to the web3 with a16z podcast. Today’s episode is the final installment in our limited series on Read Write Own, the new bestselling book by a16z crypto founding partner Chris Dixon. Today’s episode features Dixon in conversation with a16z cofounders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. Their discussion covers the internet’s corporate takeover and how that affects startups, creativity, and innovation; blockchains as inheritors of the open source ethos; where AI comes in; the next battleground in global politics; and much more.

This episode is a crossover from the Ben & Marc Show, which you can find and follow on the a16z YouTube channel, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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