Andrew Chen

WHY INVESTORS DON'T FUND AI STARTUPS you might know A16Z is running a seed-stage startup accelerator called SPEEDRUN where we're funding 40+ companies in the next 2 months with $750k per company. (a…

@andrewchen·Apr 4, 2024↗

Some fun/obvious ideas for where chatGPT will go: - crawls internet, reads news - talk to APIs for booking hotels and restaurants, mapping, rideshare, food delivery, etc - can look at my data/email/…

@andrewchen·Jan 6, 2023↗

😃 I'm excited to announce @reforge has raised $21M from @andrewchen and @illscience at @a16z along with a group of product, eng, marketing, data, and design leaders... Full Story -> https://t.co…

@bbalfour·Feb 23, 2021↗

I was just trapped in a snowstorm in a 2-bedroom apartment 72 hours with one of the most powerful venture capitalists in the world. This person (@andrewchen) is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz I …

@thesamparr·Feb 19, 2021↗

One of my lessons for 2018 is that slide decks are many times more engaging than long-form essays. On average people spend 200-300% more time on a deck than an essay. Funny. Y’all are just daring me …

@andrewchen·Dec 26, 2018↗

0/ Thread: 25 traits of the ideal early stage VC 🔥 My ideas of best practices based on what I’ve seen + read. Anything to add / argue? cc @andrewchen @ArlanWasHere @eriktorenberg @fdestin @cyantist …

@pinverrr·Dec 17, 2018↗

1/ A few years ago a ton of “Uber for X” startups got funded, but very few of them - maybe none? - worked out. It sounds good but ultimately most failed on the supply side. Let’s explore why.

@andrewchen·Aug 15, 2018↗

The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I've been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to…

@andrewchen·Jul 9, 2018↗