Andrew Chen

Andrew Chen

Speedrun Investing Team

About

Andrew Chen is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He is focused on tech, entertainment, and AI via the a16z speedrun initiative.

Andrew is a prolific writer and over the past decade has written hundreds of essays at andrewchen.com on the topics of startups and user growth. He is the author of the best-selling business book THE COLD START PROBLEM, published by Harper Business, which explores how new startups launch and scale by leveraging network effects. Prior to joining a16z, Andrew led the Rider Growth teams at Uber, and worked at a number of venture-backed startups.

Andrew holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.

Latest Content by Andrew

Consumer

Chris Best of Substack on the Future of Media

Chris Best, Katherine Boyle, Andrew Chen, and Erik Torenberg
Consumer

Building Substack: Reinventing Culture through Subscriptions

Chris Best and Andrew Chen
Speedrun

Investing in Backflip

Troy Kirwin and Andrew Chen
Speedrun

Investing In Promise

Colin Campbell and Andrew Chen
Speedrun

From Swipe to Scale: How Tinder Became #1

Andrew Chen and Sean Rad
Speedrun

Founders Playbook: Lessons from Riot, Discord, & More

Jonathan Lai, Andrew Chen, Eros Resmini, Michael Chow, and Steven Snow
General

Next-Gen Gaming: AI Souls, Real-time Culture, Personalized Avatars

Andrew Chen, Joshua Lu, Avi Romanoff, Kevin Fischer, Eric Berman, Travis Chen, Matt Weckel, and Robert Yang
General

Game On: Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers

Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen
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