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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon

“A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3.”—Robert Iger, CEO, Disney

“A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, co-founder, OpenAI

The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks. He separates this movement, which aims to provide a solid foundation for everything from social networks to artificial intelligence to virtual worlds, from cryptocurrency speculation—a distinction he calls “the computer vs. the casino.”

With lucid and compelling prose—drawing from a twenty-five-year career in the software industry—Dixon shows how the internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the “read” era, in which early networks democratized information. In the “read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations.

Read Write Own is a must-read for anyone—internet users, business leaders, creators, entrepreneurs—who wants to understand where we’ve been and where we’re going. It provides a vision for a better internet and a playbook to navigate and build the future.

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Blockchains invert the hardware-software power relationship, like the internet before them. With blockchains, the software governs a network of hardware devices. The software—in all its expressive glory—is in charge.
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“Chris Dixon’s Read Write Own is a must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3 to drive even greater innovation, inspire more imaginative thinking, and ultimately unlock new growth opportunities in the future.”—Bob Iger, CEO, Disney

“Read this book to understand a compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, co-founder, OpenAI

“Chris takes on the challenge and succeeds at explaining just how crypto technology is what’s important to our technological future and how we all can benefit, much like we have from the Internet. I would encourage all regulators and crypto nay-sayers around the world to read this book.”—Mark Cuban, Shark Tank; Dallas Mavericks

“This book changed my mind. It’s a clear manifesto for redeeming the internet, and making it the democratic platform we all want. It’s the best positive case for crypto I’ve seen.”—Kevin Kelly, bestselling author of The Inevitable

“This is a pivotal moment for the internet. Chris Dixon’s fascinating book offers a refreshing and radical new take at a time when we need fresh thinking more than ever.”—Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI; co-founder, DeepMind; author of New York Times bestseller The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma

“Chris Dixon has always been someone who sees the future with clarity and practicality. He does this once again in Read Write Own making the case for blockchain technology as the fundamental building block of the future and clearly laying out where the internet is going.”—John Donahoe, CEO, Nike

“If you want to read the smartest, sharpest, and most balanced take on how blockchains could revolutionize our world, Chris Dixon’s Read Write Own is the best place to go.”—Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; author, The Great Stagnation, co-author, Modern Principles of Economics

“I love this book: the history, the insights, the optimism. Dixon does a brilliant job of explaining where the internet went wrong, but does an even better job explaining how to make things right. Every page has important arguments about how blockchains can make technology more democratic, just, and trustworthy.”—Nicholas Thompson, CEO, Atlantic; former editor, NewYorkerdotcom

“Whether you’re already interested in crypto or just curious about blockchains, web3, and the future of the internet—this is THE definitive book about the industry and beyond.”—Emilie Choi, President and Chief Operating Officer, Coinbase

“A sharp-edged manifesto for ‘new networks with better architectures’—better because they’re free of corporate control.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Illuminating . . . Dixon’s detailed discussions add nuance to the oversimplified metaphors often used to describe blockchain. . . . A stimulating overview of blockchain’s potential.”—Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Chris Dixon is a general partner at the storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which he joined in 2013. He has invested there in Oculus (later acquired by Facebook), Coinbase, and other companies. He also placed early bets on Kickstarter, Pinterest, Stack Overflow, and Stripe, all of which have products in wide use today. Dixon founded and leads a16z crypto, a division of the firm that he has grown from $300 million in 2018 to over $7 billion of committed capital dedicated to investing in crypto and web3 technologies. In 2022, he was ranked #1 on the Forbes Midas List of the world’s best venture capital investors. Dixon has a bachelor of arts and a master’s degree in philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has founded two startups (acquired by McAfee and eBay). He grew up in Ohio and lives in California.

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Why Networks Matter

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers. —John von Neumann

Network design is destiny.

Networks are the organizing framework that enables billions of people to intelligibly interact. They decide the world’s winners and losers. Their algorithms decide where money and attention will flow. The structure of a network guides how that network will evolve and where wealth and power accumulate. Given the scale of the internet today, software design decisions up front, regardless of how seemingly small, can have cascading downstream consequences. Who controls a given network is the central question when analyzing power on the internet.

This is why critics who knock the tech startup industry for placing more emphasis on the digital world than the physical world—on “bits” versus “atoms”—miss the mark. The internet’s influence extends far beyond the digital realm. It intersects, permeates, and shapes large-scale social and economic landscapes.

Even pro-tech investors play up the idea. As Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, once mused, “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” The dig takes aim at Twitter, which originally limited tweets to 140 characters, but it’s intended to pan the perceived frivolity of the software-obsessed tech industry at large.

Tweets may seem frivolous, but they affect everything from personal thoughts and opinions to the outcomes of elections and pandemics. People who claim technologists aren’t focusing enough on problems like energy, food, transportation, and housing overlook that the digital and the physical worlds are interconnected and entwined. Internet networks mediate most people’s interactions with the “real world.”

The merging of the physical and the digital happens discreetly. Science fiction sometimes portrays automation as a visible process, where one physical thing gets replaced, one for one, by another as a direct substitution. In reality, most automation happens indirectly, where physical objects transmute into digital networks. Robo–travel agents didn’t replace human travel agents. Rather, search engines and travel websites absorbed their tasks. Mail rooms and postboxes still exist, but they handle far lower volumes of correspondence since the rise of email. Personal aircraft haven’t upended physical transportation, but internet services like videoconferencing have, in many cases, obviated the need for travel.

We wanted flying cars, instead we got Zoom.

People tend to underestimate the digital world due to the internet’s newness. Consider the language people use. Subordinating prefixes like “e-” in “email” and “e-commerce” diminish digital activities’ value as compared with their “real world” counterparts of “mail” and “commerce.” Yet, increasingly, mail is email and commerce is e-commerce. When people refer to the physical world as the real world, they fail to appreciate where they spend more and more of their time. Innovations like social media that were initially dismissed as nonserious can now shape everything from global politics, business, and culture to the worldview of any one person.

New technologies will further fuse the digital and the physical worlds. Artificial intelligence will make computers vastly smarter. Virtual and augmented reality headsets will enhance digital experiences, making them more immersive. Internet-connected computers embedded in objects and places—also called Internet of Things devices—will permeate our environments. Everything around us will have sensors to understand the world as well as actuators to alter it. All of this will be mediated through internet networks.

So yes, networks matter.

At their most basic level, networks are lists of connections between people or things. Online, they often catalog what people might direct their attention toward. They also inform algorithms that further curate attention. If you visit your social media feeds, algorithms churn up all manner of content and advertisements based on your presumed interests. “Likes” on media networks and ratings on marketplaces direct the flow of ideas, interests, and impulses. Without this curation the internet would be a deluge—unstructured, overwhelming, unusable.

The internet economy turbocharges networks. In an industrial economy, corporations accrue power mainly through economies of scope and scale; that is, ways of decreasing production costs. The diminishing marginal cost of producing more steel, cars, pharmaceutical drugs, fizzy sugar water, or whatever other widget lends an advantage to whoever owns and invests in the means of production. On the internet, the marginal costs of distribution are negligible, so power primarily accrues another way: through network effects.

Network effects dictate that the value of a network grows with the addition of each new node, or connection point. Nodes can be telephone lines, transportation hubs like airports, connection-oriented technologies like computers, or even people. Metcalfe’s law, one well-known formulation of the network effect, stipulates that the value of a network grows quadratically, meaning proportional to the number of nodes squared (that is, raising by an exponent of 2). For the mathematically minded, a network with ten nodes would be twenty-five times as valuable as a network with two nodes, while a network with a hundred nodes would be a hundred times as valuable as one with ten nodes, and so on. The law takes its name from Robert Metcalfe, a co-creator of Ethernet and the electronics maker 3Com who popularized the idea in the 1980s.

Because not all network connections may be equally useful, some argue for variations to the law. In 1999, David Reed, another computer scientist, put forward his own self-named spin: Reed’s law, which states that the value of large networks can scale exponentially with the size of the network. The formula best applies to social networks, where people are the nodes. Facebook has nearly 3 billion monthly active users. According to Reed’s law, that means Facebook’s network value is 2 to the 3 billionth power—a number so eye-blisteringly large that it would take 3 million pages just to print it.

Whichever approximation of network value you prefer, one thing is clear: the numbers get big, fast.

It makes sense that network effects would dominate the internet, the ultimate network of networks. People cluster around other people. Services such as Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok are valuable because hundreds of millions of people use them. The same is true of many networks that make up the internet. The more people exchange ideas on the web, the richer that information network. The more people message over email and WhatsApp, the more relevant these communication networks. The more people conduct business across Venmo, Square, Uber, and Amazon, the more valuable these marketplaces. As a rule: more people, more value.

Network effects take small advantages and snowball them into avalanches. When corporations are in control, they tend to guard their advantages jealously, making it difficult for anyone to leave. If you build an audience on a corporate network, leaving means forfeiting your audience, so you’re discouraged from doing so. This partly explains why power has consolidated into the hands of a few large tech companies. If this trend continues, the internet could end up even more centralized, commandeered by powerful intermediaries that use their might to crowd out innovation and creativity. Left unchecked, this will lead to economic stasis, homogeneity, unproductivity, and inequality.

Some policymakers seek to defang the largest internet companies with regulation. Their remedies include blocking acquisition attempts and proposing to split companies into parts. Other regulatory proposals require companies to interoperate, allowing easy integrations between networks. Users could then bring their connections wherever they like, and they could read and post content across networks according to their preferences. Some of these proposals could rein in incumbents and make room for competitors, but the best long-term solution is to build new networks from the ground up that won’t lead to concentrations of power for the simple reason that they can’t.

Many well-funded startups are trying to build new corporate networks. If they succeed, they’ll inevitably re-create the same problems with today’s large corporate networks. What we need are new challengers that can win in the market against corporate networks but provide greater societal benefits. Specifically, we need networks that provide benefits like those afforded by the open and permissionless protocol networks that characterized the early internet.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House (January 30, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593731387
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593731383
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.72 x 1.07 x 8.52 inches

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Chris Dixon is a general partner at the storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which he joined in 2013. He has invested there in Oculus (later acquired by Facebook), Coinbase, and other companies. He also placed early bets on Kickstarter, Pinterest, Stack Overflow, and Stripe, all of which have products in wide use today. Dixon founded and leads a16z crypto, a division of the firm dedicated to investing in crypto and blockchain technologies. In 2022, he was ranked #1 on the Forbes Midas List of the world’s best venture capital investors. Dixon has a bachelor of arts and a masters degree in philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has founded two startups (acquired by McAfee and eBay). He grew up in Ohio and lives in California.

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Tim S

Best book on the future of online networks

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024

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I don't review many books, but I thought Chris Dixon's Read Write Own deserved some attention. This is nominally a book about web3 or crypto, but it's really more than that. It's (1) a history of our online age told through the lens of how networks work; (2) a well-argued diatribe against our current online lives, which are controlled by a handful of large companies and their CEOS; and (3) a well-grounded and -reasoned glimpse into our possible networked future. The book also provides some useful mental models, like the "casino versus the computer," that help to clarify the industry. The author also calls for regulation and ties the success of blockchain computing to American dynamism in the future. We need to encourage entrepreneurs and startups as part of the engine of the U.S. economy. He also provides a bunch of use-cases for the technology that go well beyond just speculative betting on tokens (which he decries). I also really enjoyed the author's style; Dixon has a knack for useful metaphors. And I think his digression into software as art is just lovely.

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Clear excellent explanation of the internet

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024

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A book about keeping the internet and information pipelines de-centralized from a partner in probably the most famous venture capital firm, Andreessen-Horowitz. Almost a call for revolution and rising up against the castles of power held by Facebook, Google and others, coming from someone who has made a living doing it.
His description of the Read era, the Write era and now the Own era matches up exactly with my experiences with the internet and information age going back to the 1980s. I kept saying to myself oh yeah I remember that and that's when I took the next step.
Extensive writing on the ownership of intellectual property and the blockchain. Also bitcoin providing full disclosure of transactions with immutable limit on circulation, preventing debasement of it's currency, which protects smaller operators who have less ability to game the system.

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Theodore Stamas

Clear and concise explanation of blockchain technology

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024

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I have read numerous books about crypto and blockchain technology but this one answers many questions about the aspects of the industry that many market pundits omit. Full disclosure, I read technology books with investment in mind and I own crypto. After reading the book, I questioned my investment in the industry. Not that it won’t become adapted into the mainstream, but it may take a long while to come to fruition. That said, if you want to learn about the technology, this is a great resource.

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Kari H.

Excellent read!

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024

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Must read for anyone wanting to know more about the history and future of the internet! Definitely change my perspective on the blockchain!

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Important Discussion on the Future of the Internet

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I read through this book in a single sitting. Chris finds a way to take a highly technical topic and condense it down to something easily understandable. I couldn’t be more pumped on what the future looks like for a digital world that is more reflective of the physical world built in large part on Blockchain networks and true digital ownership to counter the Corporate networks and the leases on our digital identities that we have come to accept.

Could not recommend more to people with little-to-no background Web3/blockchain technologies and people who have an understanding but want to learn more about how they can shape the future of the internet.

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Great read

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Inspiring, thoughtful and easy to understand

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024

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I could not put this book down. I really wanted to understand what was at the heart of this crypto craze. Crypto and blockchain are quite different than how it’s characterized by the media. The book is full of great stories, simple analogies and lessons that has now inspired me to dig deeper into the right aspects of blockchain. The book makes it incredibly clear that great entrepreneurs should use this next evolution of technology to build their own business without the dangers of being on a “corporate platform” that reaps all the benefits and pillages your business. It made very “scary” concepts easy to understand, and I now have a resource to refer back to as I explain this emerging space to others.

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John L.

Good overview of blockchain technology, but the future will see...

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2024

In his thought-provoking book "Read Write Own," Chris Dixon presents a compelling vision of how blockchain technology could reshape the internet and, by extension, society as a whole. Drawing on his extensive experience in the tech industry, Dixon traces the evolution of the internet through three distinct eras: the "read" era, which democratized access to information; the "read-write" era, dominated by corporate networks that democratized publishing; and the emerging "read-write-own" era, characterized by the rise of blockchain networks.

Dixon argues that blockchain technology combines the best aspects of protocol networks and corporate networks while addressing their shortcomings. He contends that blockchains can create open, decentralized, and self-sustaining networks that enshrine the rights and incentives of creators, contributors, and participants. By contrast, he likens corporate networks to theme parks, where a central authority controls every aspect of the user experience and can change the rules at will.

One of the book's strengths is its accessibility. Dixon's clear and engaging writing style makes complex concepts easy to grasp, even for readers with little prior knowledge of blockchain technology. He employs vivid analogies, such as comparing blockchains to cities and corporate networks to theme parks, to illustrate his points.

However, the book lacks a more in-depth exploration of specific blockchain projects and their potential applications. Instead, Dixon focuses on the big-picture implications of blockchain technology for the future of the internet and society. While this approach provides valuable insights, it may leave some readers wanting more concrete examples.

Additionally, be aware of the author's financial interests in blockchain companies. Given Dixon's role as a partner at a prominent venture capital firm, greater transparency on this front would have strengthened the book's credibility.

Despite these limitations, "Read Write Own" offers a valuable perspective on the potential of blockchain technology to create a more equitable and decentralized internet. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the broader implications of this transformative technology and its potential to reshape our digital future.

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Dylan Gallagher

Well written and meant to be read a few times

Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2024

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I read this book slowly so I could digest the current status of blockchain and the future opportunities. There is a lot to think about.

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A Must Read for Enterprise Architects, Digital Evangelists, Technology Entrepreneurs, and the like

Reviewed in India on May 5, 2024

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The book aptly sums up the shortcomings of the current digital landscape (for example Internet, Financial services, Creative economy, Social media networks, etc) and lays out the blueprint of the future that is more equitable, fair, and inclusive.

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Technology book of the year

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2024

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Brilliant case that made me understand the history of the internet and a specific case for more open internet of the future.

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Reviewed in Germany on April 9, 2024

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Chris Dixon's "Read Write Own" ist ein aufrüttelnder Weckruf zur Bedeutung von digitalem Besitz und Kreativität in unserer heutigen Gesellschaft. Dixon gelingt es meisterhaft, die Komplexität des digitalen Zeitalters in verständliche und handlungsorientierte Weisheiten zu destillieren. Dieses Buch ist ein Muss für jeden, der die Kontrolle über seine digitale Identität und Schöpfungen zurückerlangen möchte. Es ist nicht nur informativ, sondern auch ungemein motivierend und zeigt klar auf, wie wichtig es ist, aktiv an der Gestaltung der digitalen Zukunft teilzuhaben. Kurzum: "Read Write Own" ist ein essentieller Ratgeber für jeden digitalen Bürger, der in einer zunehmend vernetzten Welt nicht nur konsumieren, sondern auch kreieren und besitzen möchte.

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I liked idea of building an internet in which reward is more proportionate to effort. Loved the idea of decentralisation away from the incumbents in big tech. Makes credible arguments about the egalitarian value of new and better networks built on blockchains.

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