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Hunch and SiteAdvisor founder, and prolific angel investor Chris Dixon is leaving his current position at eBay to join Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. Dixon will become the firmâs seventh general partner, and will focus mainly on consumer investments across seed, venture, and growth stages. The move was first reported by Kara Swisher over the weekend.
You can read Marc Andreessenâs blog post on the announcement here and Dixonâs post here.
Dixon is a big win for Andreessen Horowitz, as heâs been both a successful startup founder and investor. Dixon, who began programming at eight years of age, originally co-founded website security rating startup SiteAdvisor, which was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Dixon also co-founded personalized recommendations startup Hunch, which was acquired by eBay for around $80 million a year ago.
Dixon, who has been working at eBay until now, helped lead the commerce companyâs personalization efforts and Hunch integration for the past year in New York. Dixon will actually be moving from New York to be based in San Francisco (but will maintain a residence in New York, he says).
Dixon has also made angel investments in more than 50 startups including Hipmunk, Foursquare, Kickstarter, Stripe, Pinterest, Dropbox, Codecademy, Stack Overflow, Bloomreach, Optimizely, Trialpay, OMGPOP, Skype. He co-founded a East Coast seed venture fund called Founder Collective and via that fund, made investments in MakerBot, Ifttt, Milo (acquired by eBay), Betaworks, Groupme (acquired by Skype), and Buzzfeed.
(From the TechCrunch blog post. Thanks to Leena Rao.)