How can I listen to a16z in the future?
Original title: " How can I listen to a16z in the future? "
Original source: WhoKnows DAO
If a high-ranking preacher is questioned twice by "unenlightened" civilians, is this a human problem or a Taoist problem?
This question is for a16z and Web 3.0. Here's the thing.
Marc Andreessen, the star venture capitalist who once bet on Meta and Twitter, is now the "a" in a16z, which is in full swing. In the future, he will be on the broad road of Web 3.0 The evangelist in charge of a new Sequoia on the Internet got stuck when asked by Tyler Cowen on a podcast.
Cowen is a columnist, a podcast creator, and in this exchange, an elite in the Web 2.0 camp. The two seem to be half a body apart, but it can't be considered that they have no intersection. At least Andreessen understands media and podcast content creation. An investment by a16z behind him has made Clubhouse , which had once dreamed of subverting the world's social landscape, become a unicorn. And a16z itself also launched the news original and distribution platform Future last year, vaguely intending to build a self-media empire in Web 3.0 .
Cowen - podcasting insider, Web 3.0 outsider - asked Andreessen a few simple and specific questions:
- What are the specific benefits of Web 3.0 for podcasting?
- Could Web 3.0 allow podcast creators to get paid in a better way?
- Traditional vs. Web 3.0, what are the key differences for podcasting?
And then, Andreessen, the great mentor, was asked.
The video was not cut, and Andreessen's eyes drifted in the screen. In discussions within the framework of Web 3.0, vision is not an issue, too specific. Facing the basic problems in the field of content creation, Andreessen seems to have never had an idea, and then in order to maintain a decent speech rate, he began to come up with grand concepts such as "openness" and "freedom" at high frequency to prevaricate.
At the end of the discussion, Cowen came to the most practical point, "Will Web 3.0 at most allow people to buy some signed shirts, or something like that?" Is there an advantage in purchasing behavior?"
"It doesn't make much sense, it only accounts for a small part of GDP, and it may not be realized." Cowen added a sentence to this critical question, and then He rested his chin and waited for the answer.
“But...but the magazine income, the podcast income itself contributes to the same small GDP, and these small incomes are very important.”
This perfunctory answer is similar to "0.1 and 0.001 are much smaller than 1", and Andreessen is a little embarrassed to say it.
Cowen (left) and Andreessen (right) source: Originated from the Internet
Recently, the Web 3.0 world is once again in turmoil, and the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum have fallen from their highs in November last year Nearly 70% have fallen below their respective support levels of $20,000 and $1,000. The cryptocurrency lender Celsius has forced the suspension of user operations and filed for bankruptcy. The Lehman crisis is almost coming again.
At this moment, if the outside world expects a group of people who can take the lead in jumping out of the narrow framework of technology and financial concepts, with a more pragmatic observation logic To recalibrate the direction of Web 3.0 from within, a16z has no intention of being the most suitable candidate. Since January this year, a16z’s investment in Web 3.0 has accelerated, and within six months, 36 projects have been launched, with an investment amount of more than 2.3 billion US dollars.
The flow of money is always the most sincere, which is why the outside world is looking forward to this conversation. It's just that Andreessen screwed up a roadshow to educate the masses.
What is special about a16z is that before this, no venture capital firm has ever acted in such a style.
It portrays itself as a "Hollywood scout" type venture capital firm. Find potential stocks and plan a star-making campaign with the operating philosophy of CAA, Hollywood's top talent agency. In a16z's team of more than 300 people, more than 70% are engaged in post-investment management and empowerment, that is, value-added services such as consulting, recruitment, and business expansion, while only 22.7% are actually engaged in investment .
A story that sets the tone for this is that Andreessen spent three nights in the a16z office lobby organizing books, one part programming, one part business , and another category about Hollywood.
Such a fleeting and exquisite story, if it is not fabricated, it must be the image that Andreessen wants to actively reveal.
It's Hollywood to tell a wonderful story; it's Web 3.0 to tell a story with the right people.
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a16z also realized early on that these stories need to be successfully cultivated not in traditional media, but in open spaces like Twitter and Facebook.
The shot that really pulled a16z away from the institutional media was the embryo of a Hollywood star, 19-year-old female CEO Holmes, who was promoted by Andreessen and others As well as the blood testing company Theranos he founded, was exposed by the institutional media around 2015 as a fraud of the century. Theranos claims that its detection technology can achieve the test results of hundreds of diseases (including cancer) in the test of a drop of blood, but the investigative report exposed by the Wall Street Journal at the end of 2014 shows that the 11-year-old company The company still can only conduct 15 tests, far less than the more than 240 it claims.
The costume of the female version of Jobs fell to the ground, and since then, startups in Silicon Valley have been cast a shadow of doubt when facing the institutional media. This made a16z decide to be the speaker, master the channel, and confront the institutional media.
If Holmes had glanced at Twitter as she walked out of San Jose federal courthouse on four counts of fraud in January, she would have seen Marc Andreessen's Twitter followers already Nearly 1.1 million, Chris Dixon has 870,000 Twitter fans, and the two have now become very influential opinion leaders in the encryption field.
But maybe twitter will become less important in the future. A16z 's self-built media brand Future was officially launched in June last year. In addition to a16z's internal staff, the authors also include senior experts and well-known writers in the industry. The content includes articles, videos, and podcasts and other forms of content.
Skip the institutional media, master the social platform and start setting the agenda yourself, the most influential venture capital firm in the field of Web 3.0 actually has a lot of Strong media attributes, which in itself reveal some unique rules of success in this field. Everything from the beginning of the Web 3.0 project was based on consensus and circles, and a16z has the opportunity to further flourish this collusion with Web 3.0 entrepreneurs.
By the way, at the end of last year Andreessen blocked the Twitter account of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey because the latter said that "venture capital Institutions and limited partners are controlling Web 3.0 in a centralized fashion.”
In the heat wave of Web 3.0 in the past two years, the improvement of the NFT transaction and circulation environment has contributed a lot, and this kick in the public eye is history The first tweet on the Internet was bought at a high price of nearly 3 million U.S. dollars. The tweeter was Jack Dorsey.
However, in March this year, he led the investment of a16z in the 450 million seed round of Yuga Labs, a start-up company behind the boring ape project. Besides, what more value is there.
In another podcast, a16z consultant Packy McCormick was asked a more pointed question by investor Zach Weinberg, an opponent of Web 3.0.
What is the significance of NFTization of real estate?
The scenario set by Zach Weinberg is roughly like this: If Joey NFTs the property rights of the house and mortgages it in a decentralized market Going out, and thus got a sum of money from Chandler to buy this NFT property right, and then Joey spent all the money and became a rascal, Chandler couldn't get the money back, what should he do?
McCormick’s answer was, “Take this smart contract to the courts.”
Packy McCormick Source: from the Internet
The problem is here, except that the material of this certificate has changed, nothing seems to have changed. When going to meet the court with this smart contract, all links have not been omitted, except that some steps will take place on the blockchain.
But "happening on the blockchain" itself does not improve the efficiency of the entire process, even before the emergence of NFT, maybe Chandler will not It's so easy to lose your property so easily.
This podcast comes to its most awkward moment, the questioner is aggressive, McCormick is speechless, and finally he confesses that he was asked about the mortgage loan example, "I never thought about this question."< /p>
It's hard to imagine, this is the answer of a venture capital consultant who has participated in investing in nearly 15 top DeFi projects.
This reminds me of a speech McCormick gave a few months ago, the content translation comes from FastDaily:
" I realize that I may be overlooking something more important and relevant to all of us - Web 3.0 makes our lives better. I'm not talking about what it lets us do, like being able to make cheap, instant and global payments or own digital assets. I mean, Web 3.0 gives us the tools to design our lives so that they make sense and align with our interests and values. It allows us to have more fun doing work that matters to us, tap into our unique superpowers, gain more flexibility and choice, and create meaningful change in the world. "
This road will lead to a land flowing with milk and honey, and that is the only thing you need to know. But how, when, and which way to go is not important.
If Web 3.0 is really full of spring in the end, then a16z, which is working hard now, will definitely hold a huge piece of it Business map. But even now that the global cryptocurrency market has surpassed the trillion-dollar scale, Web 3.0 is still considered an embryonic concept. Out of good intentions, it seems that the outside world should not require all the uncertainties of Web 3.0 to be able to figure out the specific implementation logic in the early stage.
This irrational shield should be removed.
At least in Yahoo, Apple , Tesla now, when all the new species that claim to overturn the world and finally try to fulfill their promises appear, the vision of the world is not so tolerant.
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