Chris Dixon on Why We Will Finally See New App Innovation in Crypto - Ep. 773
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So we have probably I'm just these aren't exact numbers, but I would say 30 to 40 probably app layer companies that have basically been blocked from building and launching what they wanna build. And the ones that have launched, I think it's they really what you see is half of what they wanted to build and not the full thing. And so what I I think that what I'm actually working on, like, on a day to day basis, like, literally having phone calls and talking about it with these folks, is, like, how do we now, in this new policy environment, build the products we wanna build and run the real exper
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We're recording the day after president Trump signed an executive order making crypto a national priority. You have been investing in crypto for over a decade. You've seen a huge range of of ups and downs, and we're not even a week out from Gary Gensler's reign at the SEC. And here we are, we've had this dramatic shift. So how did you feel upon it being signed, and what specifically about the order, if anything, struck you as being particularly notable?
Yeah. So it's a big topic. You know, the and happy to go into as much details as you want. I've been spending a lot of time on this for a couple of years now out of necessity. So the last three years, four years were quite frustrating. We, you know, I I think we had a regulatory sort of a policy scheme that essentially not only made it very hard for good actors to build things in in the space, but frustratingly went after the good actors, but very rarely went after the bad actors. And so this so I can sort of tease this out, but, like, I think, you know, the kind of most high profile example o
Hey, everyone. Just a quick clarification here. Chris said we supported Ruben Gallego and Alyssa Slotkin in the senate, but he meant that Fair Shake, an independent organization to which a 16 z has donated, supported those candidates.
You have, you know, Kirsten Gillibrand. You have, on the house side, you have, as I mentioned, like, senior leadership like Nancy Pelosi and also kind of up and coming democratic members like Torres and Auchincloss and others. So so, anyway, so it's look. It's just generally trending much, much better. To me, what's so exciting is if we can do that, if we can get good rules in place, you know, we can accomplish 2 things. We can reduce fraud and bad actors. I mean, 1 of the, you know, the many failures of the of the Biden administration and the tech policy, I think it was just, you know, the wo
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