The unauthorized profile of the world’s top crypto investor, Chris Dixon | Fortune

The Andreessen Horowitz GP controls the biggest crypto investing fund on the planet—but has spent a career trying to stay in the background.

It was 1982 and 10-year-old Chris Dixon got his second computer—an Atari 800. Desperate for guidance on how to build video games, the tech-obsessed preteen would persuade his parents each month to drive him down to the local air base, Wright-Patterson, about a 35-minute drive from the 1920s three-bedroom home where he grew up, in the small town of Springfield, Ohio. A group of engineers there who shared his affinity for computers hosted one of the state’s many monthly Atari “user group” meetings for other computer enthusiasts. But Dixon was more than just a casual enthusiast. Thwarted by the l

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