About | Andreessen Horowitz Who We Are In 2009, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz built a16z on a single conviction: software would eat the world, and the biggest tech companies would become far more valuable than anyone believed Since then, we have over $100B+ under management across multiple funds 1 a16z pioneered the platform model—the largest team of operators in venture, from marketing and talent to legal and
Andreessen Horowitz | Software Is Eating the World Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology
Marc Andreessen, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz About Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to
Late Stage Venture Is About Late Stage Founders That’s the founder’s job The alpha of founder-led companies is in the founder’s decision-making Founders carry the burden of deciding when to surf the wave of tech best practices (which is most of the time!) versus when to zig when others zag, and make brave decisions against the consensus
Why We Prefer Founding CEOs - Andreessen Horowitz We almost never meet a founder who has these skills at the time they found the company Therefore, the founder must learn the skills required to run the company on-the-job
Unlocking AI’s Future: Alexandr Wang on the Power of Frontier . . . In this conversation with a16z general partner David George, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI—models, compute, and data—and how creating abundant data is core to the evolution of gen AI