cdixon.org - Chris Dixon's personal webpage home contents about Professional Background Currently: - Co-founder of Hunch. - Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including Skype, TrialPay, DocVerse, Invite Media, Gerson Lehrman Group, ScanScout, OMGPOP, BillShrink, Oddcast, Panjiva, Knewton, and a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode. - Member of Founder Collective Previously: - Co-founder and CEO of SiteAdvisor through its acquisition by McAfee. SiteAdvisor has been downloaded over 135 million times, and was awarded Time Magazine's "50 Coolest Websites", Popular Science's "Best of What's New", and PC World's "100 Best Products of 2007" (#15). - Worked at Bessemer Venture Partners making early-stage investments, including the lead investment in the Series A of Skype. - Designed and programmed multimedia web applications, including the original version of Oddcast's talking avatar software, and the karaoke software that became kSolo, later acquired by MySpace/Fox. - Co-head of R&D at Arbitrade, a hedge fund focusing on high speed options trading (acquired by Knight Trading Group and eventually Citigroup). - MBA from The Harvard Business School - BA and MA from Columbia University, majoring in Philosophy. Personal Background - I am originally from Ohio and now live in Brooklyn. photo of Chris Dixon