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Alex Rampell

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Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on financial services. He serves on the board of Branch, Brightside, Descript, Divvy, Earnin, FlyHomes, Loft, Mercury, PeerStreet, Point, Propel, Sentilink, Super Evil Mega Corp, Transferwise, and Very Good Security.

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 Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013).

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

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Investing in Flock

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Every Company Will Spin Out a Fintech Company (August Fintech Newsletter)

by Alex Rampell, Anish Acharya, and Seema Amble
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Doubling Down on SentiLink

by Alex Rampell
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Who Will Build Consumers a Debt Dashboard?

by Seema Amble, Anish Acharya, Sumeet Singh, and Alex Rampell
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Alex Rampell@arampell

Congrats to my good friend and long-time compatriot. He is an amazing human and visionary operator…whilst being unswervingly loyal and unflappably steadfast. Godspeed! https://t.co/HRhMlFTQXz

Alex Rampell@arampell

Stock market acronyms, an update: FOMO: Fear of Missing Out TINA: There is No Alternative SOGU: Stocks Only Go Up SHITZ: Still Holding It Till Zero Helpful graph courtesy of a friend: https://t.co/8rhoBb5JvM

Alex Rampell@arampell

“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.” -Andy Grove

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