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Alex Rampell
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Alex Rampell

Investing

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Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm’s $1 billion Apps practice. He serves on the boards of Branch, Brightside, Capitolis, Descript, Divvy Homes, Earnin, Flock Homes, FlyHomes, Loft, Point, Propel, Sentilink, Super Evil Megacorp, and VGS, and Wise (WISE:LSE). Alex additionally led the firm’s investments in OpenDoor ($OPEN), Plaid, Quantopian (acquired by Robinhood), and Rival (acquired by LiveNation).

Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnet in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013).

He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.

Latest Content

  • How AI is Transforming Labor Markets
    Alex Rampell, Angela Strange, and David Haber

    Did you know the U.S. nurse labor market is over $600 billion annually, but the dedicated software market for nurses is almost zero?

  • The VP of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet discusses the challenges she confronted pushing Apple Pay into the mainstream, new Apple verticals on the horizon, and her advice for early entrepreneurs.

  • Today, thanks to AI, we are witnessing potentially the greatest transmutation in history. Software becomes labor. It’s the new E=MC2.

  • There’s likely a whole category of non-AI companies and products that can FINALLY exist *because of the productivity gains of AI.*

  • 金融サービス業界が生成AIを受け入れる日は意外に近い
    Angela Strange, Anish Acharya, Sumeet Singh, Alex Rampell, Marc Andrusko, Joe Schmidt, David Haber, and Seema Amble

    金融業界ではもう10年以上にわたって、人工知能(AI)と機械学習(ML)が引受業務の改善や詐欺防止システムの強化などに幅広く利用されている。大規模言語モデル(LLM)に基づく生成AIによって飛躍的な進歩が可能になり、教育、ゲーム、コマースのあり方そのものまで変わってきた。これまでは既存のデータから予測したり分類することが主なAI/MLの使い道だったが、生成AIを使えばこれまでにない新たなサービスを生み出すことができる。

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