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a16z’s Arianna Simpson believes crypto will be just fine, thank you for asking
If the crypto investment craze of 2021 could be defined with one investor name, that would be Andreessen Horowitz — or a16z for short. The well-known VC firm has raised over $7.6 billion for its crypto funds. And yet, crypto isn’t doing so well this year. As TechCrunch’s Jacquelyn Melinek wrote earlier this summer, crypto funding dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter. That’s why we invited a16z General Partner Arianna Simpson at TechCrunch Disrupt to take the pulse of the crypto ecosystem. “I’ve been in crypto for over 10 years,” Simpson said. “What we’ve seen is that there are very repetitive ... (full story)