In “The Space Age”, I wrote about the importance of mankind extending our reach into the stars. Moreover, I suggested that America is — and should remain — the leader in this endeavor. It was, in many ways, an appeal to the past and possible future to catalyze the present. However, the present alone demands heightened...| Andreessen Horowitz
There are lots of people talking about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one. Filled with Ben Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.| Andreessen Horowitz
In the era of foundation models, multimodal AI, LLMs, and ever-larger datasets, access to raw compute is still one of the biggest bottlenecks for researchers, founders, developers, and engineers. While the cloud offers scalability, building a personal AI Workstation delivers complete control over your environment, latency reduction, custom configurations and setups, and the privacy of running all workloads locally.| Andreessen Horowitz
In peacetime, it’s all about growth. In wartime, it’s just about surviving.| Andreessen Horowitz
We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company. Sometimes, however, the metrics may not be the best gauge of what’s actually happening in the...| Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.| Andreessen Horowitz
This post presents our current recommendation for how tech startups should structure employee stock incentive programs. I recently wrote a post about the potential issues associated with switching from a 90-day post-employment exercise period to a 10-year exercise period for employee stock option grants. While the goal of that post was to surface a number...| Andreessen Horowitz
a16z is excited to welcome Erik Torenberg as our newest General Partner, bringing a decade of experience at the intersection of investing, media, and networks. With our acquisition of Turpentine, Erik will help scale our media and network efforts while continuing to invest in the next generation of founders.| Andreessen Horowitz
We explore what MCP is, how it changes the way AI interacts with tools, what developers are already building, and the challenges that still need solving.| Andreessen Horowitz
The a16z gaming team believes that games will play a pivotal role in defining how we socialize, play, and work over the next century.| Andreessen Horowitz
The a16z Fintech team invests in banking, lending, insurance, and real estate. The team is reimagining future customer-facing products and infrastructure.| Andreessen Horowitz
The a16z Enterprise Tech team invests in entrepreneurs building technology that will change the next generation of enterprise, from AI to satellites.| Andreessen Horowitz
a16z is a leader in consumer technology investments, backing some of the most popular new technologies that shape how we interact with the world today.| Andreessen Horowitz
The a16z Bio & Healthcare Tech team invests in tech-forward healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators who are leading the way in biological engineering.| Andreessen Horowitz
Imagine carrying around a bag of cell phones everywhere because you needed to use a new and separate piece of hardware for every single app — games, email, etc. — that you currently run on a single smartphone today. Seems crazy, but that’s essentially what our model for computing used to be, with standalone silos...| Andreessen Horowitz
Delaware’s no longer a safe bet. a16z is moving to Nevada—and here’s why more founders should reconsider where they incorporate.| Andreessen Horowitz
Traditional search was built on links; GEO is built on language. A new paradigm is emerging, one driven not by page rank, but by AI models.| Andreessen Horowitz
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.| Andreessen Horowitz
Venture capital marks are highly variable based on different valuation methods. These are the main "mark" valuation methods used by venture firms.| Andreessen Horowitz
The time has come to stand up for Little Tech. Bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech. We believe American technology supremacy, and the critical role that Little Tech startups play in ensuring that supremacy, is a first class political issue on par with any other.| Andreessen Horowitz
When tech investors talk about valuation as "multiples" on revenue, what does that really mean? We demystify the role of entry multiples and share the two factors that matter most in tech growth investing.| Andreessen Horowitz
In 2024, enterprise leaders are doubling down on their genAI investments. 16 developments for founders to keep in mind to capture this new opportunity.| Andreessen Horowitz
Sarah Wang is a general partner on the Growth investing team at Andreessen Horowitz, focused on AI and enterprise technology companies. She currently| Andreessen Horowitz
BY MARK CRANNEY One of the myths of SaaS is that the products are so good, so easy to use, so quick to deploy … that the product sells itself. Given the popularity of try-before-you-buy and freemium-to-premium models for software as a service, it’s easy to see where that myth comes from. But as many...| Andreessen Horowitz
20 years ago, if you had a great idea for an online business, it would take significant time and capital to launch. First you’d buy some servers and some networking gear; next you’d have to buy software licenses; then develop a custom web server, a database, a front end server to handle requests… etc. Then...| Andreessen Horowitz
We see three phases in the evolution of adopting GenAI in marketing: the development of marketing copilots, the introduction of marketing agents & the rise of an autonomous marketing team.| Andreessen Horowitz
Technology startups need a voice. We are non-partisan, one issue voters: If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them.| Andreessen Horowitz
We have just raised $7.2B for American Dynamism ($600M), Apps ($1B), Games ($600M), Infrastructure ($1.25B), and Growth ($3.75B). This marks an important milestone for us.| Andreessen Horowitz
To seize a future of energy abundance, we must simplify the generation, transmission, and consumption of electricity; this entails decentralizing the grid.| Andreessen Horowitz
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.| Andreessen Horowitz
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| Andreessen Horowitz
Software is eating the world. More than 10 years after the peak of the 1990s dot-com bubble, a dozen or so new Internet companies like Facebook and Twitter are sparking controversy in Silicon Valley, due to their rapidly growing private market valuations, and even the occasional successful IPO. With scars from the heyday of Webvan...| Andreessen Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The| Andreessen Horowitz
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.| Andreessen Horowitz
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the cause on one political...| Andreessen Horowitz
There's a full-blown moral panic about AI right now. But the real risk is losing the race to global AI technological superiority.| Andreessen Horowitz
The American Dynamism practice invests in founders and companies supporting the national interest: aerospace, defense, safety, education, and manufacturing.| Andreessen Horowitz
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