Excited to release Discourse, a tech forum for the modern era. discourse.cosign.co Today, the discourse in tech is either free for all (broadcast social networks) or completely private (group chats). There’s no midsize social network where a few thousand tech leaders tal…↗

Excited to introduce @Cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: cosign.co Our goal is to create the following: - A comprehensive startup directory of investors, companies, and operators, including what they worked on and who they worked on it with. -…↗

Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.↗

New Media, One Year In A16Z New Media is one year old! And we’ve had several portfolio companies (and other venture firms) ask us how our team works, how we built it, and how they might build their own. Here is what we share with them: If you’re ever pitching a16z, at some poin…↗

What's the best fellowship program or community you've ever been a part of? (Digital or IRL)↗

Unbundling the university: Education - YouTube, Masterclass Accountability - Lambda Network/Alumni - Village Global, On Deck Credential - Github for X, P2P Flirting w/ Marxism - Read the NYT Dating - Tinder Moving away from parents - Airbnb, Common Friends - Clubhouse, Twitter↗

What I want to bring to the world in the next decade: - Competitor to the modern university - Kickstarter for ppl - P2P Credentials @Cosign - Idea Markets - Popularize NVC Common thread: I want to democratize how people learn, raise money, and build relationships & reputations.↗

Deep Dive into education: - Current problems in k-12 & higher ed - Future of k-12 & higher ed - 3 waves of ed-tech - Opportunities for startups in the space, including homeschool, credentialing, unbundling & rebundling the university, and more Thread👇↗

Favorite takeaways & quotes from Chris Dixon interviews👇 "What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in 10 yrs" "If you want to bet against that...you're betting against a lot of smart people...I'll take the other side of that bet"↗

Unbundling the university: - liberal arts - technical education - summer camp - dating market - sports - co-living - salons - hedge fund - 4 year vacation - flirting w/ marxism - coming of age - alumni network - credential - prestige - insurance policy - identity - coming of age↗

The credential is the last element to be unbundled from college: - education (MOOCs) - networks (accelerators) - credentials (stay tuned) My bet: P2P credentials If I trust you & you say X is the best young person you've worked with, that means more to me than a Harvard degree↗

Consider two frameworks: The Peter Thiel approach + Keith Rabois approach Thiel - pick a niche they can monopolize and expand outwards from there Rabois - go “horizontal” - find trillion dollar markets + build full-stack, vertically integrated solutions. Go big or go home.↗