© Reuters. Dogecoin Co-Founder Takes Swipe At Crypto VCs: Web3 Has Nothing To Supply To Content material Creators
(CRYPTO: DOGE) co-creator Jackson Palmer has taken one more swipe at enterprise capitalists — particularly, Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), for his feedback about the benefits of Internet 3.
What Occurred: Palmer criticized Andreessen’s feedback about Web3 advantages and stated he is “out right here attempting to get blocked by [Andreessen] once more.”
Actually I am simply out right here attempting to get blocked by @pmarca once more.
— Jackson Palmer (@ummjackson) June 16, 2022
Andreessen visibly struggled to elucidate a Web3 use case to the economist, columnist and blogger Tyler Cowen within the interview.
Palmer stated, “The good thing about web3 was that, for a scorching minute, VCs had extra [Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)] than they knew what to do with and you possibly can make financial institution promoting your content material particularly to them.
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Why It Issues: Palmer had earlier labeled cryptocurrencies as “parasitic” and had taken a jibe at Tesla Inc (: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, calling him a “grifter.”
In an interview with the Australian newspaper The Age this month, Palmer stated Andreessen, Mark Cuban, and others who’re “closely on the crypto practice” had as a lot or much more affect than Musk.
“For those who go and have a look at the individuals who had been concerned with Y Combinator or 500 Startups 10 years in the past, I just about assure they’re all working a crypto enterprise fund proper now,” stated Palmer.
Andreessen and a number of other different individuals linked with a16z are invested within the NFT fund Curated, which launched with $30 million in funding in March.
Andreessen is the co-author of Mosaic, an online browser used within the earliest days of the web, and the co-founder of the legacy browser Netscape.
He has been on the board of Fb (NASDAQ:) guardian Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) since 2008 and is becoming a member of Musk’s bid to takeover Twitter Inc (NYSE: NYSE:).
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