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Chris Dixon

Venture investor; co-founder of SiteAdvisor and Hunch

A software founder and venture investor who co-founded SiteAdvisor and Hunch, later leading a16z crypto. His documented reading selections explore computing pioneers, genetics, and scientific history.

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Investing Venture Capital Technology Founder

3Books recommended

1Book written

Books Chris Dixon recommends

3 books, each linked to the source where Chris Dixon recommended it.

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A Mind at Play

by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman · 2017

Selected in Chris Dixon’s winter 2017 reading recommendations.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Andreessen Horowitz

Evidence details

16 (x)4 Books We Read Winter 2017

An official firm reading list attributes this selection and a positive assessment to Dixon; catalog wording is a citation paraphrase.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Andreessen Horowitz · 2017-12-28 · accessed 2026-09-30

Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list

The section headed Chris Dixon directly names this book and praises it. Only his section is used; recommendations by other contributors are not attributed to him.

Bookshop.org

The Gene

by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016

Selected in Chris Dixon’s winter 2017 reading recommendations.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Andreessen Horowitz

Evidence details

16 (x)4 Books We Read Winter 2017

An official firm reading list attributes this selection and a positive assessment to Dixon; catalog wording is a citation paraphrase.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Andreessen Horowitz · 2017-12-28 · accessed 2026-09-30

Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list

The section headed Chris Dixon directly names this book and praises it. Only his section is used; recommendations by other contributors are not attributed to him.

Amazon Audible Bookshop.org

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes · 1986

Selected by Chris Dixon as his favorite book read in 2018 for learning and enjoyment.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Andreessen Horowitz

Evidence details

16 (x4) Books We Read Winter 2018

His attributed contribution to the official winter 2018 firm reading list positively recommends Rhodes’s scientific history.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Andreessen Horowitz · 2018-12-24 · accessed 2026-09-30

Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list

Dixon’s section calls this his best book of the year for learning and enjoyment. Catalog text is a citation paraphrase, not a direct quote.

Audible Bookshop.org

Books by Chris Dixon

Written by Chris Dixon. Not counted as recommendations.

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Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

by Chris Dixon · 2024

Chris Dixon’s account of internet networks and blockchain ownership. The publisher documents the January 2024 ebook separately from the 2025 paperback; no preferred edition is asserted.