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I spoke with Chris Dixon on the a16z pod about what consumer founders should think about in the age of AI. We talked about exponential forces, networks v. tools, the renaissance of paid software, movements, the idea maze, open source, and the open web. Chris is one of the rare people who has seen these cycles from every angle. He was a 2x consumer founder himself before becoming one of the most successful consumer investors of the last two decades, backing companies including Coinbase, Oculus and Reddit. He has also been consistently early to new communities on the internet, predicted major platform shifts, and built a deep understanding of networks at a time when most people still underestimated their power. He has also written some of the most influential essays on these topics and is, in many ways, a true n-of-1 thinker on how technologies grow from toys to global platforms. Full episode in comments. My notes and takeaways from the episode: