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with @cdixon @pmarca @bhorowitz @rhhackett

Welcome to the web3 with a16z podcast. Today's episode is the final installment in our limited series on Read Write Own, the new 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; and the next battleground in global politics. 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.

Resources for references in this episode:

• "How an economic moat provides a competitive advantage" by Chris Gallant (Investopedia, August 2023)
• "The dynamics of network effects" by D'Arcy Coolican and Li Jin (a16z, December 2018)
• "Skeuomorphism" (Interaction Design Foundation)
• "How to rebuild social media on top of RSS" (Hacker News, December 2022)
• "Cardinal conversations: Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel on 'technology and politics'" (Hoover Institute, January 2018) [see @ 29:00]
• "Peter Thiel: AI is communist" by Dan Primack (Axios, February 2018)
• "Sam Altman seeks trillions of dollars to reshape business of chips and AI" by Keach Hagey and Asa Fitch (Wall Street Journal, February 2024)
• "Join a union—but also join a DAO" by Daisy Alioto (The Nation, December 2021)
• Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani (Verso, June 2019)
• "Friedrich Hayek and the price system" by Randal K. Quarles ("The Road to Serfdom at 75" conference, November 2019)
• Pandora's Box: A Fable from the Age of Science "Part 1. The Engineers' Plot" by Adam Curtis (BBC, June 1992) [see @ 25:00]
• "Going from web2 to web3: 'Your take rate is my opportunity'" by Chris Dixon (a16z crypto